Rob Beard wrote: > Hmm, I can see your point in installing XP Pro, not sure if Microsoft > will see the point unless it's a legal copy. It's a shame that > Microsoft don't allow downgrades from Vista Home to XP Home. > > Anyway, yes I have managed to get an older non techie person onto > Ubuntu. A friend of mine asked if I could sort his mum's PC out which > had a pirate copy of XP on it. I suggested they try Ubuntu and if > they're not happy with that it would be about £60 for a copy of XP Home. > After a demonstration of Ubuntu Feisty he said he was happy for his > mum to give it a go. All she does is browse the internet and check her > e-mails. So anyway, I installed Ubuntu and delivered the PC. I took > her through everything on the PC (took about an hour) and she was happy > with it. In fact, she was so happy, he's asked me if I could install > Ubuntu on her old PC for a friend of hers who just does word processing > (although I think it'll have to be Xubuntu as it's an older PC). >
Forgot to add, because she has broadband I can connect in remotely via SSH/VNC to fix things although as she lives so close to my parents I generally pop over to fix things (touch wood, nothing has gone wrong yet). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
