On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Jon Reynolds <maill...@jcrdevelopments.com> wrote: > 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.
It's not unusual. (No, not a cue for a song.) You should get her a Simplicity box... http://www.simplicitycomputers.co.uk/ (Disclaimer: I put the software together for this. But we did it precisely for people like your mum, from what you're saying...) -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AOL/AIM/iChat/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • LiveJournal/Twitter: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
