Robin Menneer wrote: > Alan > Cornwall. You can see some of my interests on www.cornishhedges.com. > (comments welcome). Yes, I agree about different needs - all one > needs is a simple menu offering switchable facilities by function > rather than by name
Email, Word Processing, Internet Browse, (more?) > Protection should be inbuilt with user status. I believe this is already there. > Surely in the 21st century we do not need an install person You said you got someone else to install for you. Installs are about as easy as I could imagine now. Insert cd, say yes take over hard drive, ok, english ok, then have a few cups of tea. Knowing that nobody in their right mind installs windows themselves (quite difficult), I think ubuntu does pretty well and will probably get better too. > Aged > late-departed mother in laws should not have to be daunted by install > problems. I gather one Ubuntu difficulty was with the display which > turned out to be merely a deficit in programming. The only display problem I had in many various installs was with a dell laptop inspiron 1100 - this model was produced with a display and bios communication problem. It was easier to install linux (ubuntu etc) than XP even though I was using the original Dell CDs! -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
