Comments on: The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment – It’s not about Ubuntu http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/the-great-ubuntu-girlfriend-experiment-its-not-about-ubuntu/ Openlogic's Community Blog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 01:05:10 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: perspectoff http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/the-great-ubuntu-girlfriend-experiment-its-not-about-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-102052 perspectoff Thu, 01 May 2008 16:40:07 +0000 http://www.openlogic.com/blogs/2008/04/the-great-ubuntu-girlfriend-experiment-its-not-about-ubuntu/#comment-102052 He did the wrong experiment. Kubunjtu (KDE desktop instead of the frustrating Gnome desktop found on Ubuntu) is much easier to use for previous users of Windows. In fact, it can be set to act almost identically to MS Windows, if so desired. I did the experiment with myh 8 year old daughter with Kubuntu. She fared much better than the aforementioned girlfriend. He did the wrong experiment.

Kubunjtu (KDE desktop instead of the frustrating Gnome desktop found on Ubuntu) is much easier to use for previous users of Windows.

In fact, it can be set to act almost identically to MS Windows, if so desired.

I did the experiment with myh 8 year old daughter with Kubuntu.

She fared much better than the aforementioned girlfriend.

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