Although she hasn’t asked me to install ubuntu on her laptop yet, im sure the time will come soon.  Mom is on my laptop whenever she gets a chance…and its because of ubuntu.  She likes the games, and she likes the effects (Beryl) and she likes how responsive everything is.  I think as soon as she gets hers back (her power connector broke inside) she will be asking me to install it for her, epecially considering the fact that HP almost always slicks harddrives on returns, no matter what the problem was.

There have been a few postings on some other blogs about the subject of mothers/fathers jumping on the linux train, and I think thats going to be the case here as well.  Dad can’t switch on his system, he needs windows for proprietary software from work (Navy) that deals with Classified info and encrypted remote desktop stuff and all kinds of fun things I don’t even want to try to make work in linux…not to mention they have specific rules about running that software in a virtual machine (for security reasons).  I do think though, that by year end, I will have 4 of the 5 computers in the house exclusively linux.  I can’t wait.  I’m really tired of playing IT Guy for everyones systems.

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