I was wondering if there are people here teaching newbies to run Linux
from what I call ODE (the Other Desktop Environment), which is to say,
using X and a window manager and a file browser/manager from 'xterms'.

Or newbies who would prefer to run Linux without relying on one of those
limited, resource-hogging, artificial, Windows-clone user-interfaces.

This is how I learned to run Linux, and unlike most people I didn't come
from the Windows world, and after studying KDE on their website for
quite a while have come to the conclusion that it is _harder_ to learn
to (sort of) run Linux with KDE and the like.

It is also quite clear to me that it simply isn't possible to run
Linux without a basic handle on the shell. That's obvious from
just the posts on this group.

The "gurus" are the ones who don't need KDE (etc.).

Tom

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