[mdlug-discuss] Speaking Of Teenagers........

[Brian Riggs]

I actually have my niece, 17 at the time of setting her up, with a SuSE 9
box, and my mother-in-law, 66, with Unbuntu and they have had no problems,
and prefer it to M$.  Good luck.

On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 11:34 AM, Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>wrote:

> Warning, I'm getting on a soapbox!!
>
>        What is it with kids?? I know I sound like my Dad <groan>. I set up
> my
> old T30 Thinkpad for my step daughter. Opensuse 10.3. Pretty well loaded
> it up, all the ipod tools, frostwire (I wouldn't do limewire because it
> keeps wanting root file access), lots of cd ripping tools, all gui
> stuff. Several email clients, browsers, games, etc. All the stuff I hear
> her talk about or know that she likes. I explained about it's not
> windows, don't bother downloading programs. It got used now and again,
> very infrequently. Myspace surfing, IM, listening to music. I would find
> some Windows setup program for one or more programs every time. I would
> usually install the Linux equivalent unless it wasn't available or
> wanted something I wasn't willing to give. After several months it was
> finally used for what I intended it for; because her Dads had crashed;
> to do a school assignment. It was finally taken with but returned
> several days later, because they were unable to log on. I had tried to
> troubleshoot over the phone but that wasn't going to work. I toggled the
> caps lock key and signed on...... I kept it for several more days and
> let her know it was ready. There is sat. It's a good solid machine that
> works very well, but it's not MS so it gets treated like a red headed
> stepchild. The menus are almost identical, I even renamed programs so
> anyone would know. Put links on the desktop, etc. The other night she
> was here showing Mom something on the web on Moms notebook, or trying
> to. Something wouldn't work, I counted no less than eight reboots by the
> sound file. God forbid I get asked, of course it may have something to
> do with the fact that I get asked late at night after it's completely
> fubared and I simply then put it on my pile to look at later. MS has
> apparently not only conditioned a lot of people to simply reboot and try
> again, and again, and again ad nauseum. Same with downloading .exe
> files. The common wisdom seems to be if it doesn't look like it should;
> MS; then it can't work. Of course this is the same child that has an
> ipod, and must pray to the church of Cupertino. Any of the ipod
> management tools don't get used, itunes must be used. I hope they
> smarten/wise up because my social security depends on them <shudder>
>
> Best Regards,
> --
> Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
> http://petertheplumber.net
>
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