Oh god, don't even go there... My mum has a netbook running XP. I really would like to get Ubuntu on it, seeing as I am her main support, although I do live 200 miles away, so support at the mo is via logmein.com... not that any of this is any reason not to use Ubuntu.
But she really doesn't have a clue bless her. The basic principles of what a password is and what it is for and how her email username and password isn't what the entire Internet is asking her for just doesn't sink in. The other day I logged in as she was saying the internet was doing something 'funny'. Somehow she had got Firefox to open about 170+ tabs every time it opened... no wonder she thought it was broke as it must have taken an age to open all those web pages every time. But to my mum, she doesn't get the concept of tabs... she doesn't even get the concept of windows (i.e. minimised windows on the task bar) I am amazed she manages to do what she does on the internet. She seems happy enough tho. Jon On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:00:59AM +0000, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 25/03/10 10:47, Alan Bell wrote: > > Jon Reynolds wrote: > >> > Well as it turns out, April 17 is my Mum's birthday so not likely I > >> > could come anyway. > >> > > > bring her along as a special birthday treat! > > We could tell her about popey's Mumbuntu project. :-) > > Al > > -- > The Open Learning Centre > http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
