Give grandma the right reasons to use Ubuntu

[Derek Broughton]

anthony baldwin wrote:

> Derek Broughton wrote:
>> I completely agree.  If my mother had been in easier reach, I'd have put
>> Ubuntu on the system I gave her.  As it is, she gets most of her
>> technical support from a tech-savvy friend and from a local computer
>> shop.
>>
>> Now getting my _wife_ on Ubuntu is more difficult...
>>   
> My wife got tired of the constant crashes, data losses, viruses,
> intrusions, spyware,
> malware, and other endless plagues and frustrations associated with
> windopes.

> She noted that I never had these issues to deal with, never spent a penny
> on software, and happily do my work without interruptions, and is now
> using Ubuntu on her machine.

Well, you see, my wife knows that life isn't that easy for me - because I
keep breaking my system.  However, she also knows that I used to do the
same thing with my Windows system, too :-)

Really, the only thing that is keeping her using Windows is the fact that I
can't convince her to ditch her hotmail account.  She has to use Linux for
our business work (because I told her the tools weren't available in
Windows - I really don't have a clue if that's true :-) ). The only tool I
have for getting mail _off_ the hotmail account is "freepops", and it's
inconsistent at best.  Konqueror doesn't work with hotmail (at least not
reliably) and she seems to have trouble with Firefox, too.  Come to think
of it, that machine has ies4linux installed - I wonder if hotmail will work
through there...
-- 
derek