On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 02:07, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Sunday 02 Jan 2005 18:47, JR wrote: > > I wish my mother in law used linux :) > > Can't you find the one thing that she would *really* love to have, then let > her 'accidentally' see it? A little gentle deceit is not really harmful. > ;-)
> For most people, that means OpenOffice and Mozilla/variants, with Evo if > they are used to Outlook. My husband has his own Mandrake box, but rarely > adventures beyond the kde patience pack, which knocks the socks off the M$ > offerings. There are some pretty good photo-handling packages these days. > It's hard to find something that would really stump most people. Yep, KDE Patience is exactly how I snared my sister :-) That and all the free educational software, her being a teacher. But I had to prepare the way by first having OOo and Mozilla on her new XP box, and not 'fixing' the things she found most annoying about XP :-) Then it was just a case of having her visit one day, having to pop out for half an hour, and leaving patience up on the screen :-) John. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forget that new hard drive, save some lives instead, donate to the Red Cross: USA: https://www.redcross.org/donate/donation-form.asp UK: https://www.donate.bt.com/bt_form_dec.htm Oz: https://www.redcross.org.au/Donations/onlineTsunamiDonations.asp NZ: https://www.banqonit.com/proxypage.aspx?boiid=205
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