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Originally Posted by john_tomas
how would you do that???
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My 82-year old mother started out with linux 2 years ago, ... she was a WinME user before that. The "trick" was to perfectly match her WinME desktop layout with openSUSE-10.2, ... icons in same position, same background. She did not like the "K" menu graphic in lower left, nor the "openSUSE lizard", so I changed that to a microsoft "start" menu copied from WinME.
All of a sudden, it looked familiar, and she felt more comfortable. Then I went into KDE setup and set the mouse clicks to match the winME look/feel.
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Originally Posted by john_tomas
they are always afraid of removing something they shouldn't or to let useless trash or their computer  |
My mother was also afraid of that for WinXP, WinME and Linux. No difference there between OS. Absolutely none.
As for root password, she has it, but I told her never to use it. Phone me first and I will walk her through what has to be done.
And she calls me for Linux support (I live with my wife, across the ocean in a different continent) and I connect to my mother's PC via vnc, take over her Linux desktop, and teach her. And my mother calls my wife just as much, for WinME/winXP support, and my wife connects to her PC via vnc, and takes over her WinME/winXP desktop. Again, no difference.
My mother notes her retired friends are all envious of the support she gets in both Linux and Windows. Her retired friends, all winXP or Vista users, are having a major night mare keeping their PCs running with winXP/Vista. While my mother, possibly because support is only a phone call (and 9 time zones) away, is now comfortable switching from winME to WinXP to Linux, all via the boot partition. The desktops between the 3 OS are starting to diverge a bit, as she is starting to put her own influence on them, ... but overall it works well.