On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 22:12, Greg Meyer wrote: > On Friday 21 January 2005 10:02 pm, JR wrote: > > My landlady gave me her laptop for the weekend to setup for her. It's 2.8 > > Ghz but runs slower than my 800Mhz machine - I'm assuming it's all the > > virus scanners, adware removal daemons and so on. > > > > I'm thinking of installing mdk10.1 on it and getting everything working, > > but she knows nothing about computers at all and I dont have time to teach > > her - so my questions really are > > > > 1) On windows, wireless networks in the vicinity are auto-detected so you > > can connect to them. Can this be done easily under linux? She will be quite > > mobile. > > Depends on the wireless nic, but my cisco card is pretty good about > connecting > to open networks. I was at my brothers house a few weeks ago, and instead of > wiring up through his cable modem, I just used his neighbors DSL line ;) > > > > 2) Is it fair to leave a linux AND computer newbie alone with linux in the > > world of windows when you dont have time to explain how to use what you've > > set up? I dont mean to insult the woman but she literally knows nothing bar > > how to use the mouse and type in a word processor. > > No, I don't think it is fair. It maybe okay if a person is open to change, > but my experience with people like this is that they are not able to deal > with the change. They simply want everything to be the same. IMO, there is > a greater than 90% chance that she will be mad. > > I was intrigued by your 'open to change' comment - most criticisms I've heard is that people are used to Windows & want to stick with that - here there is no change involved.
Might be worthwhile booting in with (e.g.) Knoppix or Mandrake Move to establish whther there would be any hardware incompatabilities with wireless cards, etc.
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