Terry Porter wrote:
> Terry Porter wrote on Wednesday 22 April 2009:
>
>> I recently shipped a Linux PC 6000 miles to a relative.
>>
>> They have *never* seen Linux before, plus they live so far away that I
>> just can't pop over to show them how to use it. The only documentation was
>> a small card I taped to the top, showing the account names and passwords
>> for her and her children.
>>
>> It arrived just as the Easter holidays started, meaning that her two
>> children, a boy of 6 and a girl of 5 will be home full time for the next
>> few weeks.
>>
>> The machine is a second hand HP530 slim desktop pc ($100aud) with a 2.4Ghz
>> Celeron CPU and 512Mb ram running Edubuntu 8.10.
>
>
> It's been over a week, the family is using their new Edubuntu Linux pc
> everyday, and so far, not **ONE** single cry for help!
>
> This a family that have *never* seen Linux before, and the mother has used
> Windows for years in her government job.
>
> If a family of total Linux noobs, with zero prior Linux experience can just
> use a new Ubuntu box, with no problems at all, isn't that totally at odds
> with what the wintrolls here are always claiming ?
>
> Perhaps they claim Linux is 'hard' because they don't want you to try it ?
>
> What if their motivation was purely to make Microsoft money, and they didn't
> give a damn how their lies screwed up your computing life ?
>
> What if you discovered that Linux is really easy after you had been conned
> into buying the same Windows rubbish for years ?
>
> How would you feel then ?
>
>
>
I agree - I put Linux on our family pc and no-one noticed!
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