(rant) why microsoft is not easy to use

[Jason Symes]

Interesting. With all the vitrial I've seen from this list and other people
that use linux towards windows, I'm surprised a linux distro would be
designed to mimic the windows xp gui. That would be a good deal for those
sighties not comfortable to switching to something really unfamiliar to
them, yet still getting the stability of linux.
At 06:55 PM 9/15/02 +1000, you wrote:
>
>Why not have the best of both worlds.
>Visit http://www.lycoris.org (or for the bandwidthly impaired,
http://www.lycoris.com and get a copy on cd).
>You'll probably need sighted help to get it up and running, but once its
up you can of course use it like any other linux distribution via speakup
on the console.
>The beauty of this one is for all intents and purposes your sighted folk
will think its Windows XP.
>The GUI is actually KDE 2.2.2 (3.0 in the next release i believe) but its
been heavily customized to resemble XP in look and feel.
>Coupled with a copy of Crossover office and MS Office 2k, I've almost
convinced my Fiance that linux is the way to go.
>(and she's about as diehard windows as they come).
>(btw I have no affiliation with Lycoris at all, its just that someone
demoed it to us at work and it really does look awesome).
>Regards
>Aaron

Jason Symes
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