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I have converted a Windows-user, but which puppy is best?
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tallboy
 Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1767 Location: Drøbak, Norway |
Hi all. I think I have converted a Windows user, and convinced him that Puppylinux is a the distro to use. I have no idea yet as to what his hardware is, but I guess it is a 4-6 year old desktop machine, not a laptop. I will provide info as soon as I know more. I know that he is using Firefox. He has had problems with a machine that slows down over time, he roughly know what defragmentation is, and have had to clean out viruses many times, but he claim to know very litle about PCs, his interests is mainly in using them. I use a massaged dpup-4848beta4 or dpup-485 live-CD/DVD myself, but I would not recommend that as his first puppy. I came from Mac to Linux many years ago, and even if I can use Windows, I have no practical experience with the daily frustrations Windows-users have to go through. I would very much like to learn what experiences other recent Windows to Linux converts have made. Which puppy is easiest for a Windows convert to use? The only limit so far; it will be run as a live-CD, and must have a stable edition of Firefox, and not demand a lot of configuring. There is no such thing as a second attempt at making a good first impression, so it is preferred that it is usable 'out of the box', but if absolutely required, I may do some alterations first. Suggestions anyone? tallboy |
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Dewbie
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1779 |
Remember, you're attempting to run Puppy on a computer designed to run Windows. So it might take a few attempts with a few Puppies before you find one that's compatible. The most-likely-to-run choices for a machine that age would be Lucid or Wary. From what I understand, Lucid gives you a choice of browsers. Wary comes with SeaMonkey pre-installed, but there are plenty of Firefox .pets available for it as well. |
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tallboy
Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 1767 Location: Drøbak, Norway |
Haha, point taken! 
It has always come up as a theme in the forum: How to convert Windows/Mac users, is it really possible? So one question that pops up, is if any effort has been made to make an easy entry puppy, specifically targeted at converts? tallboy |
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Dewbie
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1779 |
You can always play around with this. (I know...shameless self-promotion.  )
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Tote
 Joined: 19 Jan 2012 Posts: 237 Location: South Wales |
My tiny input; I've been using Wary puppy since December without any problems, all I've ever used in the past is XP. If you want something with all the bells and whistles you might want to look at the Legacy OS. I've been playing with it for a few days. It's knocked my eyes out, but you need to read the blurb to see if it will run properly on your friend's PC. It's designed for older systems. Find under Puppy Derivatives. 
(Edit. I lied, it's here, http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppyVersion) Last edited by Tote on Wed 04 Apr 2012, 01:17; edited 1 time in total |
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bigpup
 Joined: 11 Oct 2009 Posts: 13981 Location: S.C. USA |
For someone new to Puppy and Linux I would suggest Lucid 5.2.8-005. It has a good help section and all of the major programs also have working help. Very good for new user. Lucid does not come with Firefox installed, but it is very easy to install. It offers you a choice of browsers, to use, when you first select browse on the desktop. You could set it up the way you want and do a remaster. Burn the remaster to a live CD. It is in final testing, but only because of updates to programs and getting programs help working. It should work good on that age computer. This Windows refuge must understand, that Linux is Linux, and some things will be different from Windows. Every operating system has a learning curve. Lucid 5.2.8-005 http://diddywahdiddy.net/Puppy500/lupu-528.005.iso Main Lucid topic http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=70855 _________________ The things they do not tell you, are usually the clue to solving the problem. When I was a kid I wanted to be older.... This is not what I expected 
YaPI(any iso installer) |
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Lobster
Official Crustacean  Joined: 04 May 2005 Posts: 15588 Location: Paradox Realm |
You can install directly from Windows. 
Any easier and you would have to sit up and beg . . . http://puppylinux.org/wikka/SlackoTips A link to Puppy School and this forum for his browser . . . - We are noob friendly
http://puppylinux.org/wikka/PuppySchool Job done 
Windows Legacy infestation [oops penguin tendencies getting the better of me] 
Try again . . . Windows almost operating system once more . . . Windows on hard Drive Puppy from DVD boot Puppy configuration and data on hard drive Use Puppy for quick booting, browsing, buying and banking Use Windows for nostalgia
Good Luck http://puppylinux.org/wikka/WhatPuppyLinuxIsBestForYou Once bitten by Windows Always Puppy _________________ Puppy Raspup 8.2 Final
Puppy Links Page http://www.smokey01.com/bruceb/puppy.html |
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mini-jaguar
Joined: 13 Nov 2008 Posts: 599 |
Is this an attempt at humour? If so, I do not find it in the least bit funny. I have a computer of about the same age also "designed to run Windows" and I haven't found a single Puppy which isn't compatible (tried around 20 versions of Puppy), except for maybe Arcade 10, the reason there being some of the drivers seem too old, the xorg/xvesa for example. Oh, and please tell me how easy it is to install Puppy to a computer designed to run Mac OS, of the same age in fact. I have installed rEFIt, I can get pretty much any Puppy to boot (except Lucid which just crashes completely), but to get the grub to work with the EFI is another matter. And not to mention touchpad problems, I'll probably have to manually edit the configuration file since it doesn't recognise it properly. |
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Burn_IT
 Joined: 12 Aug 2006 Posts: 3702 Location: Tamworth UK |
4 to six years old would be brand new to me. I also found that comment to be condescending at the least. And what IS a computer design to run Windows? _________________ "Just think of it as leaving early to avoid the rush" - T Pratchett |
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puppyluvr
 Joined: 06 Jan 2008 Posts: 3512 Location: Chickasha Oklahoma |
Hello,
I dont find it condescending at all, but then I am looking at the "Designed for Windows7" sticker below my arrow keys!! PC designed for Windoze... How about "Puppy Linux - Designed for the PC".. LOL _________________ Close the Windows, and open your eyes, to a whole new world I am Lead Dog of the Puppy Linux Users Group on Facebook Join us! Puppy since 2.15CE... |
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pikacane
Joined: 03 Apr 2012 Posts: 6 |
With the exception of my netbook and the "big laptop" I haul out if I need to run VMs for school, four years old is pretty new for me too. I have a cluster at 10-12 years and trails off into "too old even for Puppy" (8 meg of ram 486SX). I have run Puppy successfully on everything from a shiny new HP dv7 to a PIII Sony Vaio. The majority of them are laptops, and if anything was "designed for Windows" it would be a laptop that shipped with it. Although getting wireless to work on some of them is a stone... puppy. |
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Sylvander
Joined: 15 Dec 2008 Posts: 4439 Location: West Lothian, Scotland, UK |
1. This machine I'm working on [my only one] is a 2003 desktop PC running Win2000Pro, and also very successfully the following... DPUP-squeeze-5.x.9-scsi-ataflash.iso [ataflash because I modified isolinux.cfg to include pmedia=ataflash] Slacko-531-scsi-MAIN-ataflash.iso Wary-5.2.2.iso Lupu-528.004-ataflash.iso [My number-1 Puppy][about to update to 005] Puppy-431-BoxPup.iso Luci-001.003-ataflash.iso [3-Headed-Dog] 2. @tallboy I wonder if your Windows user would like to be able to: (a) Boot from a "live" puppy CD-RW... (b) Hold the pupsave file on a partition on an internal HDD... (c) Have the pupsave be treated as though it's on a Flash Drive... For the following purpose: (d) So that he can have 1 config change, and 1 coding change made, with the result that... He can choose IF/when to manually "save the session changes, during the session" [back to the pupsave]... Then... At shut-down/reboot... Choose whether "to save or not to save" [back to the pupsave]. (e) He may be astonished that IN PUPPY he has been given this wonderful POWER!
. Then again, he may be of the mindset that he doesn't want to be bothered with such stuff.  SAD!
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jemimah
 Joined: 26 Aug 2009 Posts: 4309 Location: Tampa, FL |
Saluki is worth a try - it's minimalist, clean, and XFCE is much more intuitive than rox/jwm. My primary test subject is my husband who is about in the same boat as the user you describe. Just install firefox, and drag the firefox icon to the desktop and that's all you need. I believe firefox 10.0.2 from the saluki repo is more stable than the 11.0 version. You can use the saluki custom builder to add Firefox and burn a new livecd. (Midori is the default, but still a bit unstable - the user is generally expected to install Firefox, Seamonkey, Chrome or Opera). |
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Moose On The Loose
 Joined: 24 Feb 2011 Posts: 970 |
I commonly make a second copy of the save file once I get everything working. This way, making random changes to things is a lot less scary. You can let him play around with the system, knowing that no matter what, he can always go back to the situation that works. He can change colors and themes and all the settings and in general make it just exactly the way he wants it. He thus ends up with a little more "ownership". |
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Dewbie
Joined: 15 Apr 2010 Posts: 1779 |
mini-jaguar wrote:
Umm...no. Read closely:
Why do you suppose BarryK and others have released alternate/retro-kernel versions of the same Puppies? |
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