New Linux user training?

[Charles Jones]

Tuna wrote:
> Charles Jones wrote:
>   
>> Tuna wrote:
>>     
>>> I went to Best Buy 
>>> and I can't find a damn thing on there! Finding "Notepad" in the Start 
>>> menu is *easily* a two-minute ordeal.
>>>   
>>>       
>> Don't take this as defending Vista, but just FYI in vista if you don't 
>> know where something is, you can just click the Windows logo (used to be 
>> the start button in XP), and in the search bar just type "notepad", and 
>> it will run notepad for you, and also add a shortcut to it in the 
>> shortcuts area above the search bar. This also works for things that are 
>> not programs per-say, like "control panel".
>>
>> -Charles
>>     
>
> But how friendly is that to new users?
>
> I should be able to get a text editor by clicking whatever shiny menu 
> button the GUI offers and then clicking on an option that brings up Kate 
> or whatever. Why would you want to click something, then type something, 
> then wade through a few items to find something like a text editor?
>   
Oh I totally agree, like I said it was just FYI for the next time you 
are in BestBuy or are forced to use a Vista machine in the future :)
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