On Tue, 2013-07-23 at 09:13 -0500, David Power wrote: > If I may add a small asterisk to your comments re. learning Linux. I > have several friends who need help with their computers. They have > been converted to Ubuntu because it takes a lot less of my time and > effort to support them on Linux than to keep fixing their Windows > problems.
I agree! At the moment I'm the nanny of my neighbour women's laptop, since the original nanny, her flatmate, is on vacation. To troubleshoot the hardware issues of her laptop I used a Linux live CD, since the information given by XP is useless. I also needed a screwdriver and some knowhow to remove and mount RAM etc.. The young man from the repair shop claimed that the laptop should be ok, just Windows should be broken, because others and I, too may people should have damaged her Windows. Sure, I run the defragmentation and installed Firefox that damaged Windows. Using a Linux live CD and playing with the RAMs I figured out that the laptop crashes even when using a Linux live CD, no Windows, because the RAM access is broken. That even doesn't mean that the RAMs are borked. However, there are more nannies out here, able to help with issues when using Windows. My neighbour women can't use Firefox, she is used to type domain names into the input line of Explorer, she can't do the same for Firefox and wanted me to remove Firefox, so that she can do it again using Explorer. I even needed to explain her, that she still can use Explorer with it's input line. The input lines of Firefox and Explorer are the same, but she can't use Firefox's input line. Another issue she experienced, Windows opens a window saying something similar to "push the Wifi key, then you can access the internet". So she needs to ask me what's broken. I explained her, that she needs to do what the message inside the opened Windows does explain, pushed the button and everything was ok. Next time she will ask me or somebody else again. I don't want to nanny the Linux of such users, they go and buy a printer at the discounter that can't be used with Linux and then I'm the idiot. No thank you, I help her and other Windows users and I'm very rough-and-ready when doing this. -- Attention! Attackers have gotten every user's local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. http://ubuntuforums.org/announce.html -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users
