Greetings!
My friend had this conversation with her Dad:-
Dad: "Can you get in contact with Alan and get him to help me with my computer"
Friend: "I'll be honest, he won't touch it with windows on it"
Dad: "Okay, will he install Linux on it for me?"
Friend: "I'll ask."
So I have sat in front of me a laptop computer:-
Specs:-
Dell Inspiron 6400.
Intel Dual Core Pentium T2060 CPU at 1.6GHz
2GiB RAM
60GB Hard disk
Intel GMA 945 video card
DVD Read/write drive
The usual other ports you'd expect, VGA, USBxlots, sound, SD etc.
Media playback buttons.
I agreed to wipe windows off (he doesn't care about what's on there at
the moment) and install Ubuntu. I also agreed to a couple of hours of
hand-holding to get him started. As far as I can tell he has no
experience of Ubuntu or any other Linux distro.
I'm currently backing up the Windows XP hard disk to an external drive
he provided, and will start a clean install of Ubuntu later. Wondering
what to install. 10.04 LTS or 11.04 with Unity 3D or 2D?
I'm open to listen to suggestions for what to do, and what extra apps
to install. I figured it might be useful for others. I'm keeping track
of stuff in an etherpad document:-
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/PCForFriend
I welcome discussion / suggestions either here on the list or in that document.
Cheers,
Al.
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