11:49 a.m.
Hello Sir & Dear Friends,
Namaskar. I am from India. I am an occasional user of desktop computer, not
having any technical knowledge.
Although I am a big fan of *Linux*, I use msWindows to be in the mass, to
get timely assistance/help & of course,
getting my software problem repaired easily. I tried different linux
distributions on live CDs and liked Linux Mint & Ubuntu the most.
Being dependent on Graphic User Interface (point and click[?]), I liked
Gnome2, Mate and Cinnamon the most. GNOME 3 and above
are really cumbersome for me.
I could not have the courage to fully install a Linux distribution on my
PC.Once I did install Ubuntu but had to come back to WindowsXp
due to not having any support from my
family/friends here. Surprisingly some of Govt.or other institutions do
encourage use of Microsoft
products.
I am eager to know if *fedora* comes with Cinnamon environment. If you
assess my user ability do you feel *fedora* is suitable for me?
Thank you for listening to me.
--
Regards,
Yours sincerely,
*B L Majumdar,
Subhash Nagar,
Lucknow*
1:48 p.m.
On Fri, Feb 08, 2013 at 23:19:00 +0530,
Birendra Majumdar <blm4ind(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Hello Sir & Dear Friends,
This is probably better asked on the Fedora user list.
Namaskar. I am from India. I am an occasional user of desktop
computer, not
having any technical knowledge.
Although I am a big fan of *Linux*, I use msWindows to be in the mass, to
get timely assistance/help & of course,
getting my software problem repaired easily. I tried different linux
distributions on live CDs and liked Linux Mint & Ubuntu the most.
Being dependent on Graphic User Interface (point and click[?]), I liked
Gnome2, Mate and Cinnamon the most. GNOME 3 and above
are really cumbersome for me.
Fedora does have Cinnamon and Mate. Through Fedora 18 you could also use
forced fallback mode to get some of the gnome2 experience with gnome3.
Fallback mode is no longer available in Fedor 19 / Rawhide.
I could not have the courage to fully install a Linux distribution on
my
PC.Once I did install Ubuntu but had to come back to WindowsXp
due to not having any support from my
family/friends here. Surprisingly some of Govt.or other institutions do
encourage use of Microsoft
products.
I am eager to know if *fedora* comes with Cinnamon environment. If you
assess my user ability do you feel *fedora* is suitable for me?
Thank you for listening to me.
Probably the main thing to consider with Fedora as opposed to other linux
distributions is that Fedora releases are only supported for about 13 months.
(One month past the second following release.) And to get some of the latest
stuff you may want to update every 6 months or so (every release instead of
every other release).
11:37 p.m.
Hi
The lack of courage may be just the starting trouble. Initially I also had problems of
same kind. To know the actual power of the OS you install it into your PC. There are plans
of releasing the new Fedora 19 with Cinnamon desktop as default desktop environment. I
personally use Fedora 17 with Gnome3 which I feel is pretty easy to use.
As per my knowledge one of the main diference between distrbutions is the view point on
how to use the free software in them. In Fedora, you have to manually add third party
repos in order to get the proprietary softwares, plugins etc. And there is a great
community that you could get support from.
Regrads
Abijith K P
National Institute of Technology, Calicut
________________________________
From: Birendra Majumdar <blm4ind(a)gmail.com>
To: classroom(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Friday, 8 February 2013 11:19 PM
Subject: [fedora-classroom] Will fedora do for a novice new end user.
Hello Sir & Dear Friends,
Namaskar. I am from India. I am an occasional user of desktop computer, not having any
technical knowledge.
Although I am a big fan of Linux, I use msWindows to be in the mass, to get timely
assistance/help & of course,
getting my software problem repaired easily. I tried different linux distributions on live
CDs and liked Linux Mint & Ubuntu the most.
Being dependent on Graphic User Interface (point and click), I liked Gnome2, Mate and the
most. GNOME 3 and above
are really cumbersome for me.
I could not have the courage to fully install a Linux distribution on my PC.Once I did
install Ubuntu but had to come back to WindowsXp
due to not having any support from my family/friends here. Surprisingly some of Govt.or
other institutions do encourage use of Microsoft
products.
I am eager to know if fedora comes with Cinnamon environment. If you assess my user
ability do you feel fedora is suitable for me?
Thank you for listening to me.
--
Regards,
Yours sincerely,
B L Majumdar,
Subhash Nagar,
Lucknow
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