[aklug] Re: windoze 7 sucks

From: Christopher Howard <choward@indicium.us>
Date: Tue Oct 19 2010 - 11:16:49 AKDT

On 10/19/2010 11:04 AM, Kevin Miller wrote:
> Christopher Howard wrote:
>
>> Yesterday's rant was more of an poorly contained overflow after a "fun"
>> experience trying to get my dad's new laptop set up for him under
>> Windows 7. If it was entirely up to me, I would have set him up with
>> Ubuntu: but everybody else in the family seemed to think that Linux was
>> too complicated for him, and I didn't have the energy to convince them
>> all, and then look into the driver issues, etc.
>
> So tell them that since Windows 7 is so easy to support they get the
> 'honors' instead of you! I figure if someone is adamant that they know
> better, I'm more than happy to defer support to them!<g>
>
>

Ha! Well, we bought it for his birthday, and I wanted to him to have a
good experience with it. He's been a pretty good dad. My main goals were
to get the wireless connected, and then to configure and streamline his
desktop a bit so he'd have any easier time doing the things he usually
likes to do. (Watch DVDs, check e-mail, etc.)

/Hopefully/ I won't have to do much more support from this point out.

-- 
Christopher Howard
http://frigidcode.com
http://theologia.indicium.us
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