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You must have never seen Corel Linux, Caldera OpenLinux, Lindows/Linspire, etc. Many attempts were made to make Linux more user-friendly at the start of the ce
by danieldk 14y ago
You must have never seen Corel Linux, Caldera OpenLinux, Lindows/Linspire, etc.
Many attempts were made to make Linux more user-friendly at the start of the century (and ever since).
- rbanffy 14y agoI did see those, indeed. Caldera's was somewhat successful in making Linux easier to install - at least when compared to the Debian and Slackware installers of the time. At least, I managed to install it on my machine. I would also mention Conectiva's as an easy to install and use Linux. Unfortunately, at that time, the lack of desktop applications was a huge problem for the average user. Today, many people read e-mail, collaborate on documents and engage in a large part of their social lives through a browser. That was not the case in the early 2000s. Having an easy to use (or Windows-like) file manager, application launcher or even package manager was not enough. Perhaps it's unfair to give credit to Canonical for making Ubuntu grandma-friendly when a lot of its ease of use comes from applications like LibreOffice, Thunderbird and Firefox (and Gmail, Gdocs and Facebook).