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Fastbooting Linux For Dummies?
Linux First timer writes "I wonder whether the Linux Gurus of Slashdot could help me with some advice on setting up a Linux system for my wife. She is not at all computer literate, but likes to get on the net for a few minutes every morning to read news etc. She is always bitching that our XP desktop takes way too long to boot 'just to get on the net for a few minutes.' I was thinking that I could take an old laptop we have, do a little first time test drive installing and using Linux, and possibly solve her problem in one go. The requirements for the system are simple: fast as possible boot/load Firefox, easy for a computer dummy to get onto the net, hard to break through random incompetence, and comes with Open Office.org or similar for occasional use. Wouldn't be used for much else. Any useful advice for us two poor Linux newbies? For example, is Ubuntu the best choice for this, or is there a better Linux flavour for the purpose? Any useful tweaks a novice can handle to make it work better for these simple tasks only?"
Don't mind tinkering with it for a few hours, don't want to be pulling my hair out for a few days. Never installed Linux before and I'm not stupid, but not a computer super-geek either. Hardware is a couple years old (a tablet, probably)
typically i dont refer to it as 'educate' when i 'totally make shit up'.
the wear and tear issue has been debunked by several prominent tech websites.
turn up the jukebox and tell me a lie
Shhh...
Point her to a random comment on Slashdot. Typically, women will believe the expertise of a random stranger far more than their husband.
Why, I don't know... but it's the truth, and nearly globally applicable.
This is the standard of a Linux Newbie (from TFS)?? Recompiling the kernel, modifying startup scripts and understanding SSEx instruction sets?
It's too much. I'm quitting the Linux stuff and going back to Windows. I'm going to download Test King papers, memorize the answers, and get my MSCE certification. Experience and knowledge be damned!
He just needs to look at her sternly and say 'I find your lack of faith ... disturbing.'
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
Hopefully intuition doesn't tell her to bone the mailman
Hey, I'm their mailman, you insensitive clod !
Squirrel!
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