Originally posted by deanjo
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Few weeks ago. My 12 years old cousin. He had WinXP. He never spent many hours in computer, good for him (actually he sit before the monitor just to do something minor for school no more than 5 hours per week) and occasionaly brought me some video files to conver them to 3gp for his mobile phone. One day he called me to say that his puter doesn't start. I thought it was a hardware problem. I went there and saw that window$ complained about ntldr is missing. I asked him to bring me the windows' cd and I'll fix it, but he didn't have one (or he thought so). Anyway I didn't have one ofcourse (never had for the last 7 years) and found the opportunity to get him in my place hehe. I jumped home and brought the new Ubuntu by telling him I'll install him something better.He didn't care, always trusted me.
When after few minutes Ubuntu logged for first time his reaction was (I swear) "WOW! That's the desktop?". I installed some programs I believed would fit for him, some essentials firefox addons imo and turned on a few light compiz effects.
Now, he calls me almost every day (doesn't use IM yet) to ask me what program I need to do this? He found extremely comfortable to just type it in synaptic and voila he had it and the funny was that it told to my sister in school, Linux has nice games no just solitaire and bullshits (he likes Nexuiz and Maryo Chronicles). I just saw that all these years he found complex to search via internet, download and install programs, mess with zonealarm and such he neglected his pc.
Now tell me, what is wrong with this guy? Should I keep him using windows? He finds Linux easy and clean and he loves that his system is in greek (his xp was in english), oh and converts his video on his own now :P
WHat I can see mate here is that, your father is not a computer geek but knows few things about computers. My cousin, sister, father do not and they find Linux easy and nice, without annoying popups and antivirus software. My sister always keeps in her flashdrive vlc and xvid because she gets videos from her digital camera to her friends and she wants to be sure that their puters will play them... Also, since the day she bought the digital camera she loved to edit pictures and now she is learning Gimp. She's 17 btw!
Real Life , real situations!
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