Give grandma the right reasons to use Ubuntu

[anthony baldwin]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> 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...
>   
Huh...my wife and I both use hotmail accounts using firefox on linux without
a problem.
Of course, I mostly just maintain the hotmail acct to have access to MSN 
messenger
since many of the freelancers I work with use it for communication purposes.
(use Kopete), but my wife's main e-mail is her hotmail.
She does still have XP on dual boot, but only brings up XP to play Sims2
and design houses with some design software I got her, as a hobby.
We're translators, and use Omega T and openoffice.org, kpdf and other tools
for our work.  Works out great for me.  Stable, powerful tools, low 
overhead,
no headaches...

/tony

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