[Wlug] Getting your mom on Linux?IO

[Mike Perry]

Good suggestion, but I don't think my mother would understand the concept
of dual-booting. She would probably just end up booting into Widnows and
not switching -- or I would get phone calls all day saying "I am in Linux
again I don't know how I got here".

~Mike
>
> On Thursday 05 July 2007 12:37:23 pm Jamie Guinan wrote:
<snip>
> > >
> > > This sounds like a good time to upgrade her hard drive.  Put a new,
> > > larger drive in her computer and install Kubuntu onto that.  Try
> > > everything out, and if something doesn't work, put the old drive back
> > > in until you can figure out a solution.
> >
> > Or put in the 2nd hard drive and leave the 1st one in there, and set
> > it up to dual-boot.  She can still boot Windows to do her Citrix
> > stuff, and she can use Linux for web surfing (no spyware), and you can
> > try migrating iPod/printing/etc. over time.
> >
> > -Jamie
> >
> > > I'd answer your specific questions if I knew the answers.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Rich
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