[Tfug] Ideas for the ultimate "Grandma Millie" distro

[Jim March]

On 2/2/07, Tim Ottinger <tottinge at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you for being so thorough ("not the typical grandma" indeed!).
>
> I may get crossover as well, but for my kids to play windows games... they
> feel left out as-is.
>
> I am a little saddened that you have so much need for windows software,
> and
> that XFCE doesn't play well enough with crossover and wine for you.   I
> was
> hoping that you would find sufficient software in Linux land to be able to
> get by on native apps. I suppose there is still some room to grow there.
>
> I also have noticed that the ole stuff in documents is a powerful force
> keeping a lot of people stuck in MS Office.  I am strictly an OO person,
> and
> I teach OO design.  When my company gives me materials in ppt format,
> sometimes I can't teach from them.  I have to do extra work to try to get
> replacement art and text for ole-embedded diagrams, spreadsheets, etc.



Microsoft still has that free PPT (PowerPoint) reader app for download,
right?

Being such a simple little app, one would think Wine would cope?

If so, you could at least read PPT docs and then supplement those with
native OpenOffice slides...

Jim