[ale] linux recommendations/you won't believe this

[Mark Wright]

The Windose computer is not a week old and she refuses to use it!

My mother in law just bought herself a new computer.  (my mom is on 
Apple about to be replaced with Ubuntu as soon as Dow and I get dial up 
working)  Her old machine (Mom-in-Law) is 700 mhz running 98SE.  She 
was happy as a clam doing AOL games and crossword puzzles for hours but 
she thought she needed to upgrade.  She got online and bought a pretty 
expensive Gateway,  200g HD, dual DVD burners, 1gig of RAM and of 
course Win XP home.

I set it up for her and walked her though signing on to AOL.  Whew!  
Simple questions, the only traumatic part was wondering if we were 
going to have to call to have her password reset because she couldn't 
remember it.  The next day she is upset because her favorite crossword 
puzzle wont run.  No Java!  Ha ha.  I briefly explained why Msoft 
doesn't like products written by other companies and promised to come 
by soon to make it work.

But not soon enough.  I still don't know what else about her new 
purchase set her off but she called my wife and wants she or I to come 
by and pick up the new computer because she is not going to use it.  
She set her old one back up and won't listen to any of my truly kind 
and patient words to persuade her to let me help her get used to using 
it.

I told her she's not old enough to be this reactionary toward change 
but she is adamant.  The new computer is still in her basement and I 
will continue to try to get her to use it but I will most likely not 
prevail.

... The moral to this story is, If your mother-in-law can't handle 
moving from Windoze 98 to Windoze XP, run don't walk away from any urge 
to suggest any other OS.

... And that my children is the story of how the Linux box with the 
200G hd came to live at the Wright home.


On Dec 22, 2004, at 9:21 PM, Geoffrey wrote:

> Barnes, Michael wrote:
>> If you had to install a linux distro on your mother-in-laws computer, 
>> which
>> distro would you use?
>
> Her machine is currently running Suse 9.1.
>
> -- 
> Until later, Geoffrey
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