New User - First impressions

[Quynh Vu Do]

Hi,

2013/3/22 Allan Kelly <allankelly at gmail.com>

> Hi, I'm a long-time Linux user (over 10 years), father and IT
> professional. My children, aged 6-12, are well used to using Linux. I've
> just installed edubuntu 12.04.
>
> My immediate impression is "what is the difference between this and
> ubuntu?" - to be honest I can't find any! I think a casual user would give
> edubuntu about 5 minutes before deleting it. I know what I'm doing, and I
> got pretty frustrated!
>
> Why? Well, the reason I installed it was to give my children an
> environment filled with educational games and things they need for school.
> Instead, they get the Unity bar filled with standard office and system
> settings icons. Finding the educational programs is not possible without
> knowing what you're looking for. All I could find is gCompris (and which
> casual user would guess that!?), and that I found by the totally
> unintuitive "Dash home" -> "Show all applications".
>
>
I have also installed Edubuntu 12.04 but under an LTSP scheme and I do not
have the Unity desktop. By default I have a classic Gnome desktop with
menus.

maybe you have to look at the different possible choices that are offered
at the moment of installation to get this setup.

BTW with Unity and the Dash you can filter applications by categories and
you certainly have a actegory for educational software under Edubuntu.

Best regards

-- 
Vu Do Quynh (M.)
Hanoi, Vietnam
Blog personnel: Choses vues et vécues... <http://vdquynh.blogspot.com/>
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