[Coco] Thoughts on modern computers (sort of off topic)

[Louis Ciotti]

I think you are missing my point.  I am not saying that a newbie cannot
USE Linux, but lets face it you really did all the leg work before giving
it to them.  You installed the OS, put the applications on and pre-loaded
it with MP3s. Now had you handed them the computer with the install
CDs/DVDs and what ever manuals are available what would the outcome have
been?  Like I said before....  There is no Computer available today where
you can take a totally green person, and have them writing code faster than
the CoCo or similar machine of its day.



On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 12:23 PM, Frank Swygert <farna at amc-mag.com> wrote:


> I've put Mint 9 on an older Athlon single core (1.2GHz) computer and gave

> it to a friend's early 20s grand kids, who couldn't afford a computer, and

> had minimal experience with one. They love it! Admittedly, they are really

> just playing a few games I loaded on it (relatively simple stuff, not

> powerful enough for major animation) and using it as a "juke box" (I loaded

> several hundred MP3s), but they have no problem with using it at all. Mint

> is Ubuntu based, but the main design philosophy is ease of use, ready to

> run off the CD/DVD. They pretty much have it. I didn't have to tweak

> anything on Mint 12 (quad core AMD machine)... yet. With 12 they started

> using Gnome 3, which I dislike, but you can switch to MATE easily. MATE is

> a fork of Gnome 2 that is essentially the same as G2 with a few tweaks. I

> know my message was long, but read again! Unless you have some odd or just

> came out hardware, Mint is pretty much good to go. But we can disagree!!

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