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Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?

From Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily?
Date 2016-12-20 17:30 +0100
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On Tuesday 20 December 2016 12:25:52 Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 12/19/2016 5:28 PM, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> > [1] Actual case. Thinks she is using Windows because she has
> > LibreOffice. Certainly not representative of all grandmothers.
>
> I suspect the User Experience is as important as Application
> Software.
> Do you know which desktop is being used?
>
> I've been recommending Debian to an elderly friend who has
> expressed annoyance with current version(s) of Windows. He has
> sent me an old laptop with an implied "put up or shut up". I want
> to put together a demo system that will be attractive to him. I
> currently planning on Mate as the desktop. We live 1000 miles
> apart so can't just drive over to show him what I use. Comments? TIA

http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201211.html
http://www.portsmouth.lug.org.uk/talks/201211.pdf

Initially it was called Debian Adapted for Dad.  The name was changed as it 
got more publicity, since it is the desktop layer that Adam's father actually 
sees.

It was originally done on KDE 3, because it is so configurable.  And that is 
why I use TDE, KDE 3's successor.

Lisi

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  Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2016-12-19 03:30 +0100
  Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? emetib <chadbrabec@gmail.com> - 2016-12-19 04:40 +0100
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  Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-12-19 06:20 +0100
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  Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Nemeth Gyorgy <friczy@freemail.hu> - 2016-12-19 10:50 +0100
    Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Ben Caradoc-Davies <ben@transient.nz> - 2016-12-20 00:30 +0100
      Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2016-12-20 10:00 +0100
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          Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-12-20 21:30 +0100
      Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-20 11:30 +0100
      Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-20 13:30 +0100
        Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-20 17:30 +0100
          Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@gmail.com> - 2016-12-20 18:10 +0100
          Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-20 23:00 +0100
        Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-12-20 17:50 +0100
          Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-12-20 18:20 +0100
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            Re: Why I can not install software on debian easily? Joe <joe@jretrading.com> - 2016-12-20 18:40 +0100
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