[ale] Older parent friendly desktop WM

[Preston Boyington]

I'd not heard of Five.  Will look that up.  Thanks.



On October 1, 2014 5:43:29 AM Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com> wrote:

> On 09/29/2014 10:52 AM, Preston wrote:
> > On 9/28/2014 3:14 PM, Alex Carver wrote:
> >> I need some suggestions on a lightweight desktop WM that would be
> >> friendly to my parents that are used to Windows.  My dad just got
> >> scammed by one of these "driver update" scareware companies (it was a
> >> pop-up ad) that charge high dollar amounts for installing free software.
> >>
> >> I think it's probably time to shift them over to Linux, isolate them
> >> from administrative functions, but leave the system looking friendly.
> >>
> >> Ubuntu might be a bit too much and too heavy for their laptop.  I tend
> >> to use fluxbox but that's a bit too minimal. :)
> >>
> > I've put PeppermintOS on lots of peoples laptops/netbooks. It's a small
> > footprint cloud friendly spin of Linux Mint (made by LM devs) and uses
> > an LXDE environment. It also has a nice Software Center that people find
> > easy to use.
> >
> > If you want to stick with something longterm how about Lubuntu LTS?
> >
> > As an aside, I was a longtime fluxbox user, but pulled a stint with
> > FVWM-Crystal and now have become entrapped in Openbox land.
> >
> >
> >
> > Preston
> >
> Since you mentioned Peppermint, why not recommend Five which is based on
> 14.04 and has the same long term support as Lubuntu?
>
> Jim.
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