[Gllug] A long shot... Windows support

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 06:50 +0000, Philip Hands wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Dec 2010 19:22:31 +0000, Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
> > I know it's a long shot on a London based Linux list, but does
> > anyone know of someone reliable doing Windows support in the
> > Bournemouth area?
> 
> you could try getting you parents to install this:
> 
>   http://code.google.com/p/gitso/
> 
> which will give you remote access without too much grief on their part,
> but I have to agree that installing Linux will reduce net pain in the
> long run.
> 
> Cheers, Phil.

I persuaded my parents to move to Linux a little while ago.  They had
three machines (a laptop each and a desktop machine) and had seen what
their grandchildren had been running on their laptops.  They liked the
"look" of it, the speed of it, and were very impressed with the absence
of malware and malware-related issues.  

I waited until I was sure that Ubuntu (or Mint) was ready for general
use, and then I spent a morning installing dual-boots on all three
machines.  I showed both of them how to log in to each machine as them
selves, log out, operate the software that they were most interested in
(Abiword, Evolution, Firefox), do updates, and where to file their
writings.  More recently, I've shown them how to use the various bits of
multimedia software and how to burn disks.  Last month, they finally
removed Windows from all three machines.

It has been a remarkably simple transition, and I haven't been plagued
with endless "technical support" phone calls like happened in their
Windoze era!

Chris



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