Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Sat, 28 Mar 2009 00:23:31 -0400, clipka wrote:
>
> > Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> >> Maybe you should try a distro that's been developed and released in the
> >> last 5 years.
> >
> > I'm pretty sure someone experienced with tinkering around with Linux
> > sees these things differently, and possibly even rightly so.
> >
> > But what I've seen so far, with a modern distro (Debian Etch... well,
> > Lenny is out now, but I guess Etch will still qualify as modern), is
> > that it has improved somewhat, but switching from Windows to Linux is
> > probably still a full-time job...
>
> Nope, not at all.  Depends on what you do, of course, but no, it's not a
> full-time job.

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.

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.

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

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