Dude, you're getting Ubuntu (Linux.com) [LWN.net]

Dude, you're getting Ubuntu (Linux.com)

Posted May 2, 2007 1:55 UTC (Wed) by dskoll (subscriber, #1630)
In reply to: Dude, you're getting Ubuntu (Linux.com) by emkey
Parent article: Dude, you're getting Ubuntu (Linux.com)

The thought of my 70+ year old Mother trying to work with a Linux system is scary to say the least.

Why is that? My 75+ year old mother and 80+ year old father have no problem with their Linux system. Neither, for that matter, do my daughters (aged 5, 9 and 13).

Naturally, I set everything up for them, and I (very) occasionally tweak and maintain the systems. But I guarantee that they'd find Windows no easier than Linux, and I'd end up doing a lot more tweaking and maintenance.

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Dude, you're getting Ubuntu (Linux.com)

Posted May 2, 2007 16:42 UTC (Wed) by emkey (guest, #144) [Link]

My mother likes to play Nancy Drew and other windows games. I've messed with various WINE solutions and while they are fine for me I didn't find them to be very compelling for her use.

And I don't want to provide her any support if I can avoid it. I'm 600+ miles away and her ability to mess things up in subtle and difficult to understand ways is nearly legendary. Wait, maybe I'm talking about myself in that last sentence. If I am then I got it from her, no doubt. :)