On 11 Sep 2014, at 13:50, Chris Malton <chrism@???> wrote:
> *** 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.
I think the apps are coming up by consensus are as you suggest: Evince, LibreOffice, VLC, Firefox, Thunderbird, Lightning with IceDove.
and for the base Debian or a Debian derivative (specifically Xubuntu has been +10’d) for the core and either XFCE or MATE as the desktop.
Thanks every one. I’m off to role some test VM’s
>
> 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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