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#10 Re: Question: Building Accessible Desktop Systems Posted by Anonymous (203.122.xx.xx) on Wed 13 Jul 2005 at 05:31 My 70 year-old father-in-law is as clueless as you can get when you come to computery stuff. He is every windows system admins nightmare, with a habit of clicking on mails and getting viruses, despite being told repeatedly not to. Every now and then there would be windows reinstallation done to clear out the crap and viruses and make the machine behave normally. This was a machine that was just used on dial-up. I moved him to debian stable, with abiword, sylpheed, firefox, xmms, aviplay, wvdial. I decided on icewm as the window manager because the box was a p133 and because it is easy to create a menu choice for anything that needs to be done via command line. So now he just selects his apps from a menu with big friendly labels. Zero maintenance after the inital set-up (apart from security upgrades, which could be automated). Snappy response compared with KDE/Gnome on much higher-spec machines. I'm sure this story is familiar to most of you. Anyway, the lesson is - reduce the extras and the clueless can cope just fine. PJ

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