Just teach your friend about /usr/pkgsrc/wm, ~/.xinitrc, and let them
go to town testing different things.  I have found that when you give
people the freedom to choose their own desktop, they do some pretty
weird stuff with it.

_Matt


On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 08:42:10 +0100, Christoph Kaegi <kgc@zhwin.ch> wrote:
> On 21.11-11:32, Steve Bellovin wrote:
> > I'm going to be setting up a new NetBSD box for a long-time Windows
> > user.  The applications are comparatively casual -- web, email, some
> > word-processing.  I'm curious what environment people would recommend
> > -- KDE or gnome, for example.  What mailer would be most familiar to
> > someone used to Eudora?  (Mozilla or Firefox are obvious choices for
> > someone who's been using Firefox on Windows.)
> >
> 
> I've connected my parents with Blackbox, Galeon, Sylpheed and Textmaker.
> And x11vnc for remote support :-)
> 
> They didn't have computer experience before though.
> 
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> Christoph Kaegi                                           kgc@zhwin.ch
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_Matt