On Sun, 28 Jul 2013, Alan Zisman wrote to BOB KLAHN:   
      
    BK> I will look further into the Linux solution. OTOH, Linux seems to    
    BK> take a lot of work, and a translator to understand the    
    BK> instructions.   
      
    AZ> I find Ubuntu quite straightforward - no 'translator' needed to   
    AZ> install it or run it - though the user interface is quite different   
    AZ> from Windows.   
      
   true in many cases... there are gobs and gobs of UI programs, though...   
      
    AZ> (The Kbuntu variant is much more Windows-like).   
      
   that was one of the main goals of the KDE interface... but like a few others,   
   gnome being one, they need a lot of memory... some UIs use so little RAM that   
   they can enable the entire system to run in as little as 256M of RAM but they   
   are harder to configure... in those cases, one generally has to manually edit   
   the config files to add the progras they want linked on the desktop or in the   
   menus... but like so many other things, McDs vs BK vs Wendy's for instance,   
   there's a good reason to have choices ;)   
      
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