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Actually my parents are using a Debian box with Chromium. I found it is a lot easier to manage remotely than a Windows box; it's really low maintenance; they wo

by lgeek 16y ago

Actually my parents are using a Debian box with Chromium. I found it is a lot easier to manage remotely than a Windows box; it's really low maintenance; they won't grab malware and the Gnome desktop can be really dumbed down - I only left the window switcher, shortcuts for chromium and skype on the panel and on the desktop, time and date, volume control.

vinhboy 16y ago
If you ever do a write up or have screenshots of this setup, I would love to see it.
code_duck 16y ago
Mine too. Same reasoning. She accepted Ubuntu 100%, which makes sense given it's not much of a different interface than Windows XP for the average user. She even missed it when it was gone for a week (I took her system home to do a fresh install, upgrading 8.04 to 10.04). Forced to use my father's netbook, she said she 'missed the Mozilla fox operating system'. I suppose that does show how much people are tuned into the browser as the main feature of the OS!
- gizmomagico 16y ago
  > she 'missed the Mozilla fox operating system' Aww.. That's so cute!
TomasSedovic 16y ago
Have you somehow got Flash working correctly or don't they use it? I've never seen a Linux system running Flash as "smoothly" as Windows do. That's on Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu on fairly modern computers with decent specs. 32bit seems to be better than 64bit but it's still slow and buggy.
- aceofspades19 16y ago
  I've never seen flash run smooth on any os
  - TomasSedovic 16y ago
    Fair enough, but it's got much better performance on Windows than on Linux.
    - cookiecaper 16y ago
      Sure, but it's still definitely usable on Linux, as much as we'd like to avoid using it. YouTube, Zynga, and most other sites that laypeople use that depend on Flash work acceptably.
- lgeek 16y ago
  I've switched Youtube to HTML5 video and that solved their problems. :) Indeed, Flash is a lot slower on non-Windows platforms but if you have to use it, it's usable.

by lgeek 16y ago

vinhboy 16y ago

If you ever do a write up or have screenshots of this setup, I would love to see it.

code_duck 16y ago

Mine too. Same reasoning. She accepted Ubuntu 100%, which makes sense given it's not much of a different interface than Windows XP for the average user. She even missed it when it was gone for a week (I took her system home to do a fresh install, upgrading 8.04 to 10.04). Forced to use my father's netbook, she said she 'missed the Mozilla fox operating system'. I suppose that does show how much people are tuned into the browser as the main feature of the OS!

gizmomagico 16y ago
> she 'missed the Mozilla fox operating system' Aww.. That's so cute!

TomasSedovic 16y ago

Have you somehow got Flash working correctly or don't they use it? I've never seen a Linux system running Flash as "smoothly" as Windows do. That's on Arch, Fedora and Ubuntu on fairly modern computers with decent specs. 32bit seems to be better than 64bit but it's still slow and buggy.

aceofspades19 16y ago
I've never seen flash run smooth on any os
- TomasSedovic 16y ago
  Fair enough, but it's got much better performance on Windows than on Linux.
  - cookiecaper 16y ago
    Sure, but it's still definitely usable on Linux, as much as we'd like to avoid using it. YouTube, Zynga, and most other sites that laypeople use that depend on Flash work acceptably.
lgeek 16y ago
I've switched Youtube to HTML5 video and that solved their problems. :) Indeed, Flash is a lot slower on non-Windows platforms but if you have to use it, it's usable.