Jay Daniels said: > my wife has expereinced microsoft windows trouble. mainly, virus and > trojan problems and the free avg program doesn't help resolve or > remove these virus' my mother had the same problem with her dell computer under xp. > what do you think, do i stand a chance to convert her to Linux or am i > wasting my time? she basically uses the laptop as a desktop pc to read > mail via a webmail service, surf the net, purchase online, > save family photos to cdr, and print stuff. she would use X almost > entirely with the mouse under a normal user account. she also has no > interest in learning unix/linux commands or the shell. has anyone tried > to convert someone to Linux, how did it go? i'm probably going to get smacked for this, but i say ''absolutely go for it''. i converted my mother from xp to fc1, here's the difference. (machine is a p4 1.8ghz with 256mb ram) under xp slow and sluggish, behaves more like her old pIII 500 with 128mb of ram crashes at least once every two hours i was spending hours upon hours admin'ing it when i visited my brother was downloading and installing porn dialers under fedora quick as anything for her she leaves it up for days on end without issue i could update it from hundreds of miles away without issue the only time i spent on it when i visited was doing my own things honestly, once you install the flash plugin and the xmms mp3 plugin, they'll be happy as clams. also, check out my apt/synaptic walkthrough, there are tons of games she may like via fedora.us http://www.linuxadvocate.net/apt from there you can easily install flash and everything. also, download and install the xmms-mp3 plugin from www.freshrpms.net and she'll be happy. also, i gave my writer friend a celeron 900 with fedora 1, he's happy as anything, the only thing that bugged him was having to use wine to install his spanish program. does anyone know of a spanish program for linux? -d -+(duncan brown -+(duncanbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -+(http://www.linuxadvocate.net () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ - against microsoft attachments Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact. -- George Eliot
