Linux for Senior Citizens and Computers

This Showed up on Reddit today:

82 year old runs Linux

I was interested. I’ve been running PC LinuxOS for a couple of months and thought I’d update readers on what’s happening.

First, I’m Using Open Office and Celtx pretty exclusively for Word processing. I still use Firefox for the web and Thunderbird for Email: Both of these work pretty much the same as Their Windows Counterparts.

I’ve got a whole slew of Strategy games that I play Pretty Regularly: Wesnoth, Warzone 2100, FreeCiv and have started to get some of my windows games into the system through Wine when I have the time.

I’ve fallen in love with Enlightenment: It really makes a difference on my ancient machine. I got the Synaptic package for PCLinux from Bugnux. I can’t say enough about this and am working on a review. The only bad thing is a lot of the KDE applications I was using like Ktorrent, don’t show up in this manager. If anyone can tell me what I am doing wrong, I’d appreciate it.

Also, I’ve started Work on a Linux Distro for Writers for my own amusement. If anyone has anything they’d like to see included (Or left out), let me know.

About Lou

Currently plugging away on "Teddy Roosevelt and the Lost World," In which a young Theodore Roosevelt hunts the last of the great Predators in the Yellowstone Caldera. Historical Fantasy Adventure? Proto-Steampunk Alt-Hist? I Dunno yet. But I am Having fun and hope you stick around.
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