On Thursday 28 April 2005 22:19, Colin Carter wrote: <snip>
Yet you're some kind of programmer and can't figure out an OS as easily as many 'non' programmers...regular everyday 'Joes', like my 65 year old mom (who practically begged me to put Linux on her system, that's how sick and tired of M$' shit she was). What great and exciting and field leveling apps have you made that have rocked the computer world anyway? Maybe you should be called 'Stupor Programmer Man'.
Just as I said: Your Mum had a guru install Linux for her! My 83 year old Dad did him himself on XP. Regards, Colin
My mistake in notclarifying it well...I gave her the DVD and sat with her as 'she' installed it. I wanted to see how she did, and she did just fine. She was using the system to email friends as soon as the installation was finished. When she came to something that confused her, I just told her to 'read' and look at what was on the screen, not just at one line of whatever was going on at the moment. Once she did that, she went onward just fine. My friend, who is extremely computer illiterate and also not schooled well (he dropped out in the 7th grade...long story and kinda sad, but anyway...), I did the same with him, and though it took longer because he doesn't read very well, he also did just fine by himself. Another friend who uses XPee, did that install herself (I wasn't there because I won't help *anyone* that has XPee on their system <shrug>), and she re-installs about once every week or two, just because it gives her so much shit problems, like viruses, crashes, etc. She knows about A-V's and firewalls too, and installs them after each re-installation. She wants me to put Linux on her system, but because she's an AOL'er, I don't know how to get it to connect to AOhHell from Linux. That isn't Linux's fault, but an AOhHell problem as I see it. Oh well.