Windows netbook interface tweaked for ease of use

Flickr: mattjb

Most mini-laptops that come with Linux include special program launchers designed to make it easy to find the apps and utilities you’re looking for even if you’re not familiar with Linux. They also happen to make it easy to find programs if you just don’t like fiddling around with a small screen and keyboard. And that’s something that might appeal to some Windows users as well.

Flickr user mattjb has uploaded an image showing a customized Windows environment he created that looks a lot like the “easy mode” interfaces you find on netbooks running Xandros, Ubuntu, or Linpus Linux Lite. He used Stardock Fences, Enhanced Write Filter from Windows XP Embedded, and a handful of other programs including the Launchy keyboard application launcher, and the Google Chrome web browser to create desktop shortcuts to web applications.

For more details, check out mattjb’s Flickr page or Lifehacker. You can also watch a screencast of the setup in action.

Posted on Friday, April 24th, 2009, 7:30 pm by Brad Linder

pauli

that's a pretty user unfriendly background. camoflage for icons.
Rich

Are the viruses built-in or do you have to pay for them?
Mikez

With just a little bit of work – he could replace all of Windows with Linux.
Claudio Miranda

It kind of reminds me of tiled windows within Program Manager in Windows 3.1. I myself wasn't particularly fond of that either as it made everything look cluttered. Something akin to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix interface would be better organized IMO.
oddone

Very poor choice of background image, but I see what he's going for, and I could see it working…for people who aren't used to windows.

We're creatures of habit, all of us. I just think most people think computer and then think of the standard desktop paradigm we've had for decades now.
Mikez

The “standard desktop paradigm” has been stretched beyond what the human mind can grasp.
We are at least two decades over-due for something else.

With today's machine power – -
Why is the **user** still expected to learn the **machine's** way of organizing things and tasks?
Should the **machine** be instead learning what the **user** needs when they do something?
Mikez

The “standard desktop paradigm” has been stretched beyond what the human mind can grasp.
We are at least two decades over-due for something else.

With today's machine power – -
Why is the **user** still expected to learn the **machine's** way of organizing things and tasks?
Should the **machine** be instead learning what the **user** needs when they do something?
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Windows netbook interface tweaked for ease of use

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