Husband has been teaching stepdaughter to play chess.... "Wow! There are ALL THESE CHESS GAMES on here, Dad!"
She also likes to write stories...and I've got OOo on her Dad's Windows machine, so she's totally accustomed to using that instead of a Microsoft product. Her little hands are really the ideal size for a tiny little netbook keyboard, and, as I said, she's just really quickly taken to it.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:59 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
Hi Ana. Do you have a shovel? I need to dig myself out of this hole
I've gotten into. ;-)
I'm happy to see that you've had lots of success converting people.
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 03:28:17PM GMT, Ana Greavu-Rachow [pawsitiveresults@gmail.com] said the following:
--> I've got my husband using a Linux netbook these days, and my 11-year-old
> stepdaughter is constantly asking to borrow it...I gave her an older Mac,
> that she pretty much refused to learn to use, but she's doing MUCH better
> with Linux...
>
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> On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>
> >
> > I saw an interesting thing happen on Saturday at PC Max.
> >
> > While in there looking for wireless bridging equipment, I overheard a
> > conversation between two customers, a mother and what I assume was her
> > teenage son, talking to the salesman about Linux. The interesting thing
> > is that the mother was actually trying to convince her son that Linux
> > was good and he was the one being skeptical, making an excuse about it
> > possibly not running many games. Being the geek I am, I suddenly felt
> > and uncontrollable urge to become a 12 year old kid in a computer store
> > and found myself interjecting that it does play lots of games using Wine
> > and pointed out that probably half the games that you see on the shelves
> > would actually fully install and run under Wine these days. It at least
> > seemed to debunk a myth for him a little bit.
> >
> > I'm not saying that it was unusual for a woman to be advocating Linux,
> > or perhaps even a mother, its just that you don't see it happen often or
> > even hear of it happening often. Anyways, thought it was an interesting
> > thing to share.
> >
> >
> >
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