On Wed, September 10, 2008 9:56 am, MattyJ wrote: > <quote who="Dexter Filmore"> >> Only thing keeping me from Mint right now is that there's no KDE release >> of 5.0 right now and I can't give anywhere as much support via phone when needed on Gnome since I haven't used Gnome in years (last version 1.4 in fact) and don't know most of the gui utils. Considering it nevertheless. >> Dex > > Is this a family member? Sounds like you're in a bad place. If I was in this same situation and I was looking at providing Linux support to someone who obviously has never (or rarely) run it and isn't living in the > 21st centruy, I'd bluntly advise them: > > 1. Get Internet. > 2. Buy Mac. > 3. Lose my phone number. > > > -Matt
Depends on how much I love 'em. Always 1, sometimes "buy M$ (and eat shit)" on 2, 3 is always situational I feel everybody's pain. -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
