On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 08:56:06 -0400, nemesis wrote:

> As a side-note, after I bought myself a quad core, I gave my old PC to
> my ex-wife.  She's now a proud user of Ubuntu.  No complaints so far. 
> She surfs the web, write docs, manages her files, play music and videos,
> burn lots of music CDs, changes the appearence of the workspace etc.  I
> simply don't hear her saying it sucks or that she can't do any
> particular thing. Computer literacy:  she was a Windows user at work.

This is one use case that is pretty typical these days.

> Occasionally she asks me to come over to solve some issue, like when she
> downloaded some photos from friends and they had been given an automatic
> name too big for Gnome's file-manager to deal with:  it simply stopped
> working and had to be closed.  My palliative solution:  rename them from
> the command-line. My suggestion to her:  give a sensible name when
> saving to disk.

That's weird, because I haven't run into a naming issue (length-wise) 
with GNOME at all.  How long are the filenames?

> She's also happy of course to have a personal technician who won't
> charge a dime nor reinstall the system every 6 months.

:-)

Jim

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