[ubuntu-us-mi] report from new user

[Steve Romanow]

  On 9/30/2010 11:01 AM, Jay R. Wren wrote:
> My wife saw 10.10 beta on a spare laptop which I had also been trying 
> to hackintosh. She hasn't seen linux in many years and I had told her 
> about trying to hackintosh. I hadn't told her about failing to 
> hackintosh. She said "that thing has macos on it."  I didn't bother to 
> correct her.
> --
> j
>
> On 9/30/2010 10:57 AM, Marc Zuverink wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 10:53, Steve Romanow <slestak989 at gmail.com 
>> <mailto:slestak989 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>>      I have a friend who is pretty non-technical that I replaced a broken
>>     xp install with 10.04 (Lucid).  When I let them know that 10.10 was
>>     coming, to see her enthusiasm was nice.
>>
>>     Sometimes a non-tech user will be "meh" about new versions of
>>     software.
>>
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>> My mom bought a brand new Windows 7 machine, it was barely out of the 
>> box and never booted until I USB installed 10.4, talk about happy camper1
>> -- 
>> *Marc Zuverink <**mzuverink at gmail.com* <mailto:mzuverink at gmail.com>*>
>>
>> The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being 
>> overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, 
>> and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the 
>> privilege of owning yourself.   - Nietzsche*
>> *
>> *
>> *"I'll go find God, quit drinking, get in touch with myself 
>> emotionally, and we'll meet right back here at half past impossible."*
>>
>
This person I was helping, their first ubuntu experience was on release 
day of Lucid, so they are 6 months into having linux on their main pc.  
I think that is enough time for the novelty to have worn off so I would 
score that as a win.
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