Some feedback: my girlfriend, mother and friends.

[wulf]

Mariano F.co Benítez Mulett Wrote: 
> Some feedback: my girlfriend.
> Well, the subject might look funny but it does make a lot of sense.
> My girl friend was never into computers and technology but now she
> feels 
> this need of learning a bit of it, at least as basic user.
> For this she's following a curse where, of course, they teach her to
> use 
> MS Office under Win. (I know you're all about to say "Dude, why don't 
> you teach her a bit" and I'll reply that I don't have time and I'm not
> a 
> good teacher.)
> Well, the fact is that when she comes home she grabs my laptop and
> tries 
> to reproduce what she's learned during her classes but, of course, I 
> just have OpenOffice under Ubuntu so she's forced to use it.
> So, a couple of days ago I asked her which OS did she prefer and she 
> said "Linux by far". Ok, this just means that Gnome is more intuitive 
> and user friendly than the horrible WinXP Start button entry point, by 
> it's nice to see that we're all walking the right way.
> 
> Some more feedback: my mother.
> This time we're talking about an advanced user but she's always a 
> "mother". Last news is that she heard about Ubuntu and wants to give a 
> try to it installing it by herself, and she really mean it since I live
> 
> at 14,000 km from her so I can't help her.
> 
> I got my 10 cds a few weeks ago and I already don't even have a copy
> for 
> me because all people I talked to about Ubuntu wanted, at least, to try
> 
> the LiveCD.
> A friend of mine from the States who lives in Barcelona, like me, said 
> that he tried many distros and worked in the Valley for years and for 
> the first time he saw something that could tempt old Win users to give 
> Linux a try.
> I already asked for more cds but they never closed the file, probably 
> because it's always under my same name... I'll wait.
> 
> I'm very happy with Ubuntu and for the first time I think I'm doing the
> 
> proper thing, studying and learning Linux through this distro.
> 
> Ubuntu is a great alternative to Windows, which is, I think, one of the
> 
> best things of it. Of course, this is due to the excellent work of its 
> developers but also to its growing community, always willing to help 
> each other.
> 
> Great work to both areas.
> 
> Mariano F.co Benítez Mulet
> Barcelona, Spain.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Excellent! Once my parents get broadband access, my youngest brother
and I (who have both recently installed Ubuntu on various machines) are
thinking of suggesting they upgrade from Win98. I've certainly been
impressed with it over the last week or so.

Wulf


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