Ubuntu for your parents, uncles and aunts. No tech support anymore!
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| During my visit to India last month, I promised myself that I
| would accomplish one important task. I would do everything in my
| power to eliminate the tech support role that I was playing to my
| parents. You see, my parents had inherited (ah, sweet pun) a desktop
| computer from me and in my absence had taken the help of local young
| men who gleefully installed Microsoft Windows software (pirated, of
| course). Pirated software, you must realize, is like getting a newp
| air of shoes with godawful bugs in them. They bite and you can'ta
| sk for help from the seller or go to a qualified doctor. My parents,
| like many parents whose wards have ridden the software wave, aren't
| so bad off. They've got free tech support. I intensely dislike having
| to support crappy software. I was determined to solve this
| problem.
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| So there you have it. The above is only a broad overview of what I did.
| There's a lot of technical details I did not go into. If you are thinking
| of using Ubuntu, go for it, the problems are easily solved. I repeated the
| same for my brother-in-laws parents and they are happily using Ubuntu now.
| Some useful links below.
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http://scienceblogs.com/thescian/2006/11/ubuntu_for_your_parents_uncles.php
http://tinyurl.com/yetga2
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