On Friday 21 January 2005 08:43 pm, Paul wrote: > 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. > > > > > 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.
I read this that his landlady was using windows, mostly because of two things he says. slow because of adware/virus tools, and reference to windows connecting to wireless nics. If she is not running windows and already running linux, then I think it would not be a problem at all. -- /g
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