[TriLUG] Software for Linux newbies

[Mike Helms]

Al writes:
> Don't worry about giving a plethora of OTHER programs to newbies.
> Just give them what works the easiest and merely tell them (something
> which is obvious to anyone who's ever used computers) that there are
> many other programs which do the same thing that they might want to try
> LATER --AFTER they've learned how to find them online, download them,
> and install them properly.   In due time the programs they begin with
> will not satisfy them for some reason or another and they'll try others.

Amen to that.  It's very frustrating to know that there's twenty different
applications to do a particular job thirty different ways, and NONE of them
seem to work.

Cheers,
-- Mike Helms