I have brought another from the darkness into the light...

[speedwell68]

My Uncle has been struggling with Vista for 18 months, today his laptop when pop. So as a stop gap I lent him my spare laptop, that has Intrepid installed. My Aunt moaned about she couldn't run her Scrabble game, luckily the machine had Vbox with XP already installed. He now wants to know if he can run Ubuntu all the time, I just left him play with it. My Aunt will always want her windows based Scrabble game, but she also loves the array games you get with Ubuntu. They are in their mid '70s and have taken to Ubuntu like a duck to water, my Uncle has made the statement, "If Windows was as easy to use as this, Microsoft would be on to a Winner.":D

He uses it for useful stuff and she just plays games.:D

[Mehall]

Try the Scribble game under WINE, just in case ;)

[days_of_ruin]

My Uncle has been struggling with Vista for 18 months, today his laptop when pop. So as a stop gap I lent him my spare laptop, that has Intrepid installed. My Aunt moaned about she couldn't run her Scrabble game, luckily the machine had Vbox with XP already installed. He now wants to know if he can run Ubuntu all the time, I just left him play with it. My Aunt will always want her windows based Scrabble game, but she also loves the array games you get with Ubuntu. They are in their mid '70s and have taken to Ubuntu like a duck to water, my Uncle has made the statement, "If Windows was as easy to use as this, Microsoft would be on to a Winner.":D

He uses it for useful stuff and she just plays games.:D

Nice.;)

[MasterNetra]

Try the Scribble game under WINE, just in case ;)

+1 Why waste system resources VMing when you could probably do it on Wine.

[Sealbhach]

How about PyScrabble in the repos?

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[speedwell68]

Try the Scribble game under WINE, just in case ;)

It wouldn't work first try and Vbox was already installed. TBH Wine is something I never use, I know little about it, I don't really have a use for Windows. I just have it there for testing websites in Windows and copying songs to a Sony USB Minidisc recorder.

I was hoping that someone could suggest a F/OSS scrabble game, I could run natively.

[speedwell68]

How about PyScrabble in the repos?

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Nice Try. Thanks, but it has to be single player only, the very concept of playing against another player online is mind bending for her.:D This is some ancient Windows ME era game she bought years ago, it is utter rubbish, but she loves it and will frown on any alternative Scrabble. She is 74, bless her. I'm just glad my Uncle loves Ubuntu, all his hardware works, it is faster booting. He is so pleased he will never have to pay the Symantec Corp. another penny. He just uses the thing for an odd bit of Surfing, some emails, online shopping and the odd bit of basic home office type work. He was already using Firefox, Thunderbird and OpenOffice in Windows, so the transition is not that daunting for him. So the fact my aunt is happy with crappy Windows Scrabble in Vbox, is also a bonus, if she is happy why have her change.:D

[Mehall]

For testing websites in browsers, use http://browsershots.org/


it's VERY comprehensive. 90% of the time if there's a problem with it, it's on their end, not a problem with a browser (though you can see when IE does something wrong :P)

EDIT:

http://scrabble.sourceforge.net/

or

http://logical-games.mcctm.com/scrabble.html

the sourceforge one looks better, but I think it's console based? idk.

[cardinals_fan]

http://scrabble.sourceforge.net/

Windows-only...

[Mehall]

Windows-only...

my bad =[