It all comes down to personal preference I guess, but the nice thing about Gnome is that it hides the complexity of the system from the user unless they actively go searching for it - and to someone for whom a computer is effectively just a web-browser and a platform for email and IM clients that's no bad thing IMHO. That describes the last 3 people i've installed Ubuntu for perfectly - they don't even have any music collections to speak of, never mind loads of video files (don't ask me how anyone can live without music - I know I can't...)
Pete On 18/09/2007, Stephen Garton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 17/09/2007, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Scrase, Eddie wrote: > > > > I'm probably stating the obvious here, but if the two bars are a > > With reference to the 2-bars setup, My mother-in-law uses Ubuntu (on > my recommendation!), and the first thing she mentioned when I asked > her how she was finding it (we are talking 6 months ago when I first > got her using it) was how much clearer it was. She likes having the 2 > bars. The stuff at the bottom is the stuff she has open, and the stuff > at the top is stuff she can open. > > Bit of background, she had a storke at the back end of last year, and > still gets a bit confused with things, so the simpler the better! > > She also prefers the gnome-main-menu to the default, but I think that > is because she only uses a half dozen programs, so gnome-main-menu > makes it easy to find them. > > -- > Steve Garton > http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ > -- 'In letters of gold, on a snow-white kite, I will write "I Love You!" And send it soaring high above you, for all to read!' RIP Billy M 1957-1997 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
