On 07/01/2011 08:21 AM, Steven Tucker wrote:
On 01/07/11 00:39, Nick Andrew wrote:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 10:55:18PM +1000, David Lyon wrote:
he's a boy.. apt-get is a boys toy really..
You're saying apt-get isn't a suitable tool for girls?
Nick.
Maybe I am selling him short, but his younger brother (only 4) will be
joining the ranks soon, and I think he will still need a nice gui with
pictures, so the problem remains.
Thanks for your input though.
Just on a side note, when I stopped to think about it, its quite
interesting that a 6 year old can jump straight in and find software
and install it independently (one day I came home and he had installed
about 8 new games), but a lot of adults, some in the university I work
at, cant make the move to linux because its harder to install software
than Windows!?!? If my son had to google for software, navigate to the
appropriate website, download the software, navigate to the download
and double click, next next next, he would not be installing much at all.
Old dog, new tricks perhaps?
Tuxta
you got the windows software install procedure almost correct
you forgot,
untick toolbar
remove "virus scanner" bundled with install
remove autostarted helpers
take PC to computer store because it now "plays up"
restore all important documents from backup because computer store
formatted it to remove the virus that came bundled with it.
realise you lost the licence key for office that you downloaded from
microsoft
buy another office licence
realise that now your old documents are legacy and don't really work
well with new office so spend ages reformatting them.
download new email program to put smiley faces in emails.
repeat.
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