[ale] Older parent friendly desktop WM

Paul Cartwright pbcartwright at gmail.com
Fri Oct 3 08:12:33 EDT 2014


On 10/03/2014 07:12 AM, Larry Johnson wrote:
> I'd still suggest Gnewsense.  The simple gnome 2 interface will be
> intuitive to most people who've used any version of Windows before
> version 8, and it has all the basic stuff an end user typically needs
> (browser, word processor, IM, etc).  I'm running it on one of the old
> Acer Aspire One netbooks that so many people picked up cheaply after
> they were discontinued, and it runs well.
looking on the gnewsense website, the desktop shot looks alot like the
MATE desktop & menus.. that menu was the reason I went to MATE..
is that the new gnome desktop, or have I missed this...

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Paul Cartwright
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