I've finally managed to get a few friends and family members with very little computer knowledge to switch to Linux. One in particular at the moment has me at a bit of a loss as to what to suggest.
My friend's mother is fed up with Windows 98 and wants something better. Every time before I've had to go with a newbie-friendly GUI for people who don't know computers and more importantly DON'T WANT TO LEARN about them, I've gone with either a Gnome or KDE setup.
In this particular case, however, I'm dealing with a Pentium 233 MHz with 32 MB of RAM. While I'd love to put Gnome and Nautilus on there and call it a day, waiting 10 minutes for the desktop to load and another 2 minutes for the file-manager just won't cut it I'm afraid.
At any other time, I'd suggest one of the *box variants. But with a user with this little knowledge and this little patience, anything that she can't just pick up and use right away simply won't cut it. So any ideas? (If only I could get her to learn emacs... emacs + w3m + XF86 + gnus = perfection! :)
WindowMaker. (wmaker package name) 5MB memory footprint. good looking. Lots of widgets if you want them.
Personally WindowMaker is my WM of choice because it's so much faster than KDE or Gnome and I really don't see what the "Desktop Environments" give me that WindowMaker doesn't. Technically it's not a "DE".
XFCE is another one that I've heard of and it might qualify as a "DE" but I have only tried it a few times. Again, I didn't see any advantage.
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