*** Disclaimer: I work for an ISP with a number of techies. ***
We're going towards an Xubuntu 14.04 house at my office (both on desktop
and laptop).
As one of the other comments notes, XFCE-based Mint might also work
well.
We find that, in general with Xubuntu:
- XFCE is a bit like Windows (in so much as having a start menu - things
are generally findable.
- LibreOffice is available (and I recommend removing Abiword and
Gnumeric and replacing them with Libreoffice)
- Evince seems to work as a PDF reader for 99% of documents.
- The built in media player isn't great, but there's always VLC.
- Thunderbird seems to perform well for most IMAP setups - wouldn't
recommend it in an Exchange environment unless your IT department
enables IMAP though.
- For Calendar, I use Lightning in Thunderbird (and that's standard in
our business).
Of course, that's just our feelings.
Regards,
Chris
On 2014-09-11 10:07, Joseph Bennie wrote:
> I had a relatives Dell Inspiron 1300 in for "cleaning" few days ago
> and it reminded me that there are users out there with adequate hard
> ware - that just need
>
> a understandable desktop - without 3D fanfare and indexed searching
> widgets (i.e. no resources sucking frills that would tax an aged/slow
> 2.5" 5000rpm hard drive / bog standard hardware)
> core business apps i.e. LibreOffice 4.3.x
> a fully functioning version of firefox with flash and java
> compatibility
> a PDF reader
> a good media player.
> a solid imap mail client
> a usable ical compat calendar
>
> also its not really enterprise class (more good enough), it doesn’t
> need to be updated every 4 hrs and its available in 32bit version on
> an easy to install CD rom.
> Most importantly Its aimed at an average skilled person i.e. a skilled
> plumber, rather than a science graduate.
>
> after 10 years - has anyone settled on a distro(s) / distro version
> that tick this box/ out of the box?
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