Greetings from a new list member

[Morgan Storey]

I find it is best to go slow with those not overly enthused.
My missus ran Xp for a long time, and wanted office so I installed open
office, wanted to edit photos so I install the Gimp, wanted a multi-chat
client, so I installed Gaim (as it was known at the time), and Clamwin for
av. Then she started having driver issues. So I said you are already using
all Open source apps, except for the OS, they will work better in Linux. She
has been using Ubuntu now for just over 3 years.

Mother-in-law quickly followed suit when she saw the fancy screen savers and
the ease of use.
Good luck.


On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 8:42 AM, opm595 <opm595 at yahoo.com.au> wrote:

>  Hi Guys,
> Rob here, out in Sydney's sunny South West. I thought, as a new list member
> I'd drop you a line to say 'howdy doody' etc.
>
> I jumped ship about two years ago from that other OS that Bill and his
> mates created, and I've been absolutely wrapped with Ubuntu ever since.
> Truthfully, I had very little idea of what Linux actually was, prior to
> someone introducing me to the Debian/Ubuntu family. I wouldn't say the
> transition as a basic MS user was easy, but it certainly hasn't been overly
> hard, or impossible either. Plus I think my learning curb towards computing
> itself, in past couple of years, has definitely improved exponentially in a
> positive way, and my persistence to learn more and more about GNU/Linux is
> slowly paying off.
>
> Having clocked the "Big Four O" , the other week, someone gave me a really
> great book titled 'Ubuntu Linux Toolbox by Chris Negus & Francious Caen  -
> 1000+ Commands for Ubuntu and Debian Power Users', which I'm currently in
> the process of reading.
>
> Admittedly I have toyed around, more so out of curiosity then anything
> else, with a few of the other Linux distro's, but Ubuntu is now my main
> operating system, to which I now too gladly introduce to others. My wife
> seems to think I'm driving her mad with it, but who knows, maybe one day
> I'll even get her off that dreadful Vista OS she has on her laptop. Only
> time will tell, I guess.
>
> It's fantastic to now know of other Aussie users out there that are
> planting the seeds of this wonderful operating system here in Australia.
>
> Have a great day!
> Rob
>
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