regarding mate/cinnamon: will his hardware support cinnamon? if there is
any doubt I would put mate on his system so it dos not leave a bad taste in
his mouth for linux.
On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Stephen Partington <
cryptworks@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Dont forget that there are options for live cd's so he can try both and
> see which he likes the most.
>
> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:41 AM, Phil Waclawski <
> phil.waclawski@mesacc.edu> wrote:
>
>> Well, if he's never used Linux before, one of the desktop friendly
>> distros (Mint, Ubuntu, Kubuntu) is definitely where to start, but the big
>> help would be someone helping with the initial setup. Find out what they
>> want. Show them how to find and install software, how to set up basic
>> internet connections and so on.
>>
>> That may be of more use than the particular distro (so long as you pick a
>> desktop friendly one. ;)
>>
>> Phil W
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:22 AM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> My Pastor told me tonight he's had enough of Windows and wants to go to
>>> Linux.
>>> I was impressed he even knew it existed, but that's beside the point. It
>>> left me with a hard question...
>>>
>>> LinuxMint Cinnamon or LinuxMint Mate
>>>
>>> First impressions I like that Mate shows program descriptions (thinking
>>> it might be easier for him to find things) and I can drag and drop
>>> applications from the menu right to the desktop.
>>>
>>> But Cinnamon really looks nice and has the latest libraries.
>>>
>>> So my question is, which is better for a complete noob to linux?
>>> He really is only interested in LibreOffice, Chrome and maybe Firefox.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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