My autistic grandsons laptop after I set up icewm and rox pinboard.
This is not a out of the box setup. But it only took me a few minutes
and mailing the hard drive to my daughter and coaching them over the phone
on installing hard drive to the laptop and connecting it wirlessly to the internet with wicd. I jury rigged the tool bar for terminal launch applicatios like xcalc
Code:
desktop-defaults-run -t xcalc
Once in a while I get a call on installing games and making a icon on the desktop.
Which is super easy peasy on rox pinboard. My grandson and daughter are happy campers with the speed and ease of use on updating applications and the speed of browsers and youtube playback using smtube.
Expensive gear was not needed for his laptop.
He uses a Dell E5500
Which handles games and you tube videos and online movies just fine.
Seamonkey comes with irc chat so he can gab with his buddies also.
Up to you or not. But I cannot stand a canned product for some one I care about. The nice thing about AntiX. It is Debian. It is easy to tweak.
Just drag and drop from /usr/bin or /usr/share/applications. Set icons with right click and grab them from /usr/share/pixmaps or /usr/share/icons.
It is pretty self explanatory. If you like Lubuntu. Ok, but it is different and runs a Desktop Environment. It is not a Window Manager. It cannot be daily dist-upgraded like AntiX but needs a reinstall when eol comes up.
You can try the ubuntu dist-upgrade when it shows up. But I understand more breakage occurs usually, than not . Especially if the user starts making un-monitored
changes like adding third party sources.list and third party applications.
Not approved by the ubuntu software center.
Like I said. Up to you.