[ale] Older parent friendly desktop WM

[Bob Toxen]

Hopefully, you had your Dad dispute the credit card charge as fraud and
unauthorized with his bank!  There's no paper trail so this is easy and
it was UNauthorized fraud.

Bob

On Sun, Sep 28, 2014 at 01:14:35PM -0700, 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. :)
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