> On Sun, Aug 05, 2007 at 08:58:25PM +0000, Mark Krenz wrote:
> > Anyways, its not often that I'm in Windows and so I have to stay in
> > Windows for a few hours and work on other things. I forgot that its not
> > all bad.
>
> This reminds me, I have family that is quite easy to get along with...
> during two hour intervals once a year. Any more than that, and it gets
> hard to deal with.
>
> It is surprising what you can put up with during small isolated occasions.
>
> My 14 year old niece finally got tired of the frustrations of Windows
> and asked me to install Linux. She has a few isolated programs that we
> have not yet verified will run under Wine, so she is set to dual-boot
> for now.
>
> I set her up to be the administrator of her laptop, as it is safer to
> be the administrator of your own Ubuntu machine than it is to be the
> administrator of your Windows machine.
>
> She is delighted with the games available, and pleased to know that the
> product I recommended for her Ipod will allow her to copy MP3s
> from her friends' Ipods.
>
> It is finally getting to a point where Linux is more user-focused than
> Windows. It more easily does what a user wants to do. Microsoft is so
> focused on doing what the corporate world wants that they're ignoring
> the end user.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven Black
>
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one thing to consider instead of a dual boot is an option like this if the
laptop is strong enough for it
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization
cheers
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