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Anything like easy peasy for a regular laptop

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2canSAM

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I am setting up my old thinkpad to be used by the wife and kids as an internet, youtube, mp3, and email machine and love the simple to use interface of easy peasy. I tried using this off a live cd and it did not work as expected. All the hardware seemed to be fine it just cut off the top portion of the screen. This laptop works fully with a regular distro of ubuntu so I thought it would be a cinch but it is not happening. I also tried gOS 3.1 and while doable does not have the ease of use of easy peasy. Is there a distro made really simple like this for regular PCs?
 
I guess it's the netbook interface you like; Where you have broad categories, and you click each one to access various apps? Maybe you could reconfigure the interface so it works with larger monitors. I don't know how to do it, but it seems like it should be easy enough to rescale everything.

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How about regular Ubuntu with CairoDock? It's not exactly what you're looking for, but you could put everything they need in the dock, and they wouldn't have to use the menus.
 
Yeah it is the netbook interface I am after, makes it really easy to complete the transfer over to linux for them. I played around with easy peasy in a virtual machine and they both found it very easy to navigate (not that ubuntu is hard, just made this tons easier for them) and I don't want to fuss with it too much. Going to try UNR Ubuntu and see how that goes
 
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