Comments on: Switching my parents to Ubuntu http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/switching-your-parents-to-ubuntu/ Random thoughts by a random guy Tue, 26 May 2009 07:42:49 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Edde http://blog.ricketson.org/2006/switching-your-parents-to-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-353 Edde Mon, 09 Oct 2006 20:28:29 +0000 http://blog.ricketson.org/?p=17#comment-353 Same thing here. Both my own mother and my parents in law are enough computer savy to be able to do their thing, but also to mess up their computer completely. Running ad-aware and the like after some weeks usually makes me cry. Even if you tell 'em NOT to click OK on every pop-up, they usally do. :( Maybe it's a good thing to change their OS-es to Ubuntu. Last time I did a clean install I wasn't too sure about it. They just worked their way through something like "windows for dummies". Useless if you try to get them to use Ubuntu. But maybe, with the next, hard needed, clean install, I'll give it a try. Good to know there are more people suffering like me... :) Is it still working out? Or did you have to switch back by now? Same thing here. Both my own mother and my parents in law are enough computer savy to be able to do their thing, but also to mess up their computer completely. Running ad-aware and the like after some weeks usually makes me cry. Even if you tell ‘em NOT to click OK on every pop-up, they usally do. :(

Maybe it’s a good thing to change their OS-es to Ubuntu. Last time I did a clean install I wasn’t too sure about it. They just worked their way through something like “windows for dummies”. Useless if you try to get them to use Ubuntu. But maybe, with the next, hard needed, clean install, I’ll give it a try.

Good to know there are more people suffering like me… :)

Is it still working out? Or did you have to switch back by now?

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