I got my friend's mom using linux :p

[Lord Xeb]

I haven't asked her what she thinks of it (I want her to try it out). I installed it on a Compaq 5838 :D

Also, she is using linux mint <_<

[Joeb454]

It'd be nice if we could find out what she thinks after a week or so

[steveneddy]

cool

[Lord Xeb]

Yeah, and I told her that she will never have any problems with viruses (I said never since the fact there are so few virus for *NIX). Also, I got pidgin working for her so if she has problems, I told her to contact me. She uses the same distro as I do so it is easy :D. Also, RoadRunner kept on saying that she needed to install RoadRunner. I told them that I have roadrunner (which is true) and there is no installation required. Just activate it. The lady I was talking to gave me trouble and acted like she know what she was talking about, then when I ask where she was getting her info, she got pissed and sent me to tech and I got her internet activated (well, on its started anyway) in about 5 minutes. <_<

[LaRoza]

I hope her computing experiences are smooth.

If you run into problems, remember you and she can always use the forum!

[picpak]

My mom uses Ubuntu. She loves it.

[madjr]

I haven't asked her what she thinks of it (I want her to try it out). I installed it on a Compaq 5838 :D

Also, she is using linux mint <_<

she is better off with linuxmint till she gets a complete hang of things

[barbedsaber]

My grandma uses mint.

[Prefix100]

My grandma uses mint.

That is way to awesome.

I still haven't converted any family members yet, they think vista is 'Beautiful'.

[frup]

My grandparents are fine using it one their laptop, all they do is use firefox (very very occasionally) and evolution.

The biggest problem was setting up the printer, it's a brother and brothers drivers are GPL but only for ethernet/wifi printing not USB. This caused a problem as at their house they have a 1 port ethernet router. To get printing working I had to make Ubuntu 8.04 work with both an ad-hoc wireless to the printer and the ethernet to the router going. This took me 12 hours to set up (reading way to achieve this, manually configuring the interfaces etc.) 8.04 can't do this by default and the way I have done this requires some comands in rc.local BUT it's hackish.

I like the fact that my grandparents use Ubuntu but no way would they have been able to do that themselves. People can use Ubuntu but it still has enough problem to improve on.

[barbedsaber]

That is way to awesome.

I still haven't converted any family members yet, they think vista is 'Beautiful'.

In all honesty, it wasn't that hard. She was sick of waiting for XP to shutdown, she got really pissed off, and threw her laptop. SURPRISE SURPRISE, it wouldn't boot. :-k . With me being the family IT guy, I had to find a solution. I had an old laptop laying around, but I err, couldn't find a valid windows license. ;) . I would normally pirate something like that, but those people at microsoft, umm, worked really hard, and err, I couldn't bring myself to do it. ;) so I guess the only solution was to use linux :) I wanted to try out linpus (http://www.linpus.com/xampp/modules/cjaycontent/), but it wouldn't boot. My next point of call was linux mint. Now she likes it better than she did XP, and is glad that I couldn't find a copy of XP. ahh, yeah 8-[ :) .

[Prefix100]

In all honesty, it wasn't that hard. She was sick of waiting for XP to shutdown, she got really pissed off, and threw her laptop. SURPRISE SURPRISE, it wouldn't boot. :-k . With me being the family IT guy, I had to find a solution. I had an old laptop laying around, but I err, couldn't find a valid windows license. ;) . I would normally pirate something like that, but those people at microsoft, umm, worked really hard, and err, I couldn't bring myself to do it. ;) so I guess the only solution was to use linux :) I wanted to try out linpus (http://www.linpus.com/xampp/modules/cjaycontent/), but it wouldn't boot. My next point of call was linux mint. Now she likes it better than she did XP, and is glad that I couldn't find a copy of XP. ahh, yeah 8-[ :) .

Haha, good tip I'll try that next time.

[Northsider]

For people who just surf the net and occasionally make a word doc...I don't think they really care what OS they are using, as long as it conencts to the internet.

[cardinals_fan]

My mom uses Arch. I live at home (I'm only 15, so don't look at me like that!), and she likes to use my computer. Therefore, she uses whatever distro I have installed :)