I've been using gaim for years now, and I like it. I've been trying to "convert" my oldest daughter to Linux (she's 12). The only "real" problem I see for her is a few windows games (sims2, AOM, etc) play better under windows then Linux. Just this last weekend, I installed Linux (SUSE 10) "dual boot" on her PC, yes.... against her wishes. And spent a few hours with her showing a lot of the programs and setting up and configuring everything with her. She really likes Amarok, she thought it was the coolest thing. Esp when I showed her the Wikipedia stuff. The only problem I really had was when I introduced her to gaim... To me everything worked as it should, but there's a "new" trend with 11-14 yr olds... They make their user id's super long. And it wasn't showing up the way it should have. The next comment out of her mouth was that Linux sucks.... grrrrr She's already up todate on the pro's of Linux over windows. But her issue's are a "little silly" when it comes to gaim. But with the amount of time young people or just people in general spend on-line these days it be nice to have Linux IM's on par or ahead of our cousin OS's......
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I've been using gaim for years now, and I like it. I've been trying to "convert" my oldest daughter to Linux (she's 12). The only "real" problem I see for her is a few windows games (sims2, AOM, etc) play better under windows then Linux. Just this last weekend, I installed Linux (SUSE 10) "dual boot" on her PC, yes.... against her wishes. And spent a few hours with her showing a lot of the programs and setting up and configuring everything with her. She really likes Amarok, she thought it was the coolest thing. Esp when I showed her the Wikipedia stuff. The only problem I really had was when I introduced her to gaim... To me everything worked as it should, but there's a "new" trend with 11-14 yr olds... They make their user id's super long. And it wasn't showing up the way it should have. The next comment out of her mouth was that Linux sucks.... grrrrr She's already up todate on the pro's of Linux over windows. But her issue's are a "little silly" when it comes to gaim. But with the amount of time young people or just people in general spend on-line these days it be nice to have Linux IM's on par or ahead of our cousin OS's...... Lucutis.