On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 10:49:34 +0000 Mark Rogers mark@quarella.co.uk wrote:
On 28 October 2013 10:23, Chris Walker cdw_alug@the-walker-household.co.uk wrote:
Back came the reply, Parsix. I thought I'd grab a copy and see how it ran for me. I'm running it in VirtualBox and already I don't like it. Yes it looks pretty - that might appeal to some XP users - but when you tell it to install, it fires up GParted. While I might be able to cope with that, I suggest that the average XP user won't so I've already removed the VBox install and deleted the iso file.
I'm assuming I'll do the install so this isn't necessarily an issue, but I'm also going to be supporting it and as I'd never even heard of it...
My friend, like me is an ex-service engineer so I would expect him to do the install.
I saw in another reply that you have a Pi. Would it be possible for you to lend that to one or two of your XP users and ask them to try out the various distros available for it? That might give them a clearer idea of the things they liked and disliked. That might help frame your ideas of a replacement.
I like that idea. First obvious issue is that it wants to talk to a TV not a monitor but aside from that it might be a good way to demo it.
It talks to my monitor :-)
I have an HDMI to VGA adapter though which helps to avoid disturbing management when she's trying to watch something.