On Mon, 2007-10-22 at 07:05 -0700, betty wrote:
> ok, this is really the desktop for the grandma user: i can't believe it !
> i easily moved all my files for tbird addressbk, firefox bookmarks by
> just putting the appropriate files from rh onto a thumb drive and
> plugging it in, no mounting, no problem , wah-hoo.
> then i took all my document files and photo files and ftp'd them to my
> server and back to my new ubuntu. took all night on dial up, but it
> worked so smooth.
>
> this is heads above previous gui stuff i've used. so glad i chose this.
> after i had so much trouble getting suse 10 to even get installed, i
> just gave up on it; lucky me.
> ;)))
>
> my little icon at the bottom (top for some people), says 123 updates
> available, should i get all these or just check occasionally for the
> ones i need?
> i already got the other programs i wanted that weren't on the first
> download, and they also installed with NO PROBLEM. unlike the tar.gz
> files i always had trouble getting to 'just work' without all the lib
> conflicts/or missing libs etc..
> :)))
> i am telling my other grandma friends that this is the open source "one
> to get" and leave m$ for good.
----
Anything is going to look/feel/be better than your old Red Hat 9 as
things have been rapidly improving across the board. I don't know about
SuSE or openSuSE but I do know about Fedora and Ubuntu around here. In
some aspects, Fedora is better and in some, Ubuntu is better.
--
Craig White <
craig@tobyhouse.com>
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