German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens

Re:German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens by D9u on Monday June 24, 2013 @04:01PM (#5935291)

Installing LibreOffice on Lubuntu is so easy that even a caveman (me) can do it.

    1.) Open Synaptic Package Manager.
    2.) Enter Admin Password.
    3.) Type "LibreOffice" into the search field.
    4.) Follow the on screen prompts, clicking appropriately.

All of the various Lubuntu applications I've tried run quite well on my nearly 5 year old Atom N270(800MHz) 1GB RAM netbook.

Seriously, if a user has rudimentary experience with WinXP then Lubuntu will not be too much to assimilate, and the only caveats are proprietary applications, yet there exists workarounds for most, such as comphoilio's netflix-desktop - which uses a special version of wine to run Silverlight and its necessary components - to enable viewing of Netflix DRM content on Debian based systems.

http://www.compholio.com/netflix-desktop/

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Re:German City Set To Make Linux A Norm For Citizens by keithpeter on Tuesday June 25, 2013 @01:23AM (#5937692)

Absolutely! But many of the target audience may have very little experience of installing software and may need a screen cam / leaflet along the lines of your instructions. Last time I tried Lubuntu, I had to manually install the appropriate spell checker for my language (en-gb). Many will want ms core fonts as well. I agree the whole thing is one side of A4 with a few scren shots.

PS: Atom based netbooks with 1Gb are much more capable than P3/256Mb, people with such netbooks will have no issues at all with Lubuntu.

I'm running ubuntustudio fine on this Samsung NC10.

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