[CS-FSLUG] Linux Conversion Experience

[David McGlone]

On Tuesday 21 October 2008 11:56:09 am Josiah Ritchie wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at asisaid.com> wrote:
> > I have a friend in the Lord who has asked my help with his computer on
> > several occasions. Someone simply gave him one, and it is his first one
> > to actually own. It ran XP on some decent but cheap hardware. My first
> > look at it found the thing loaded with viruses and spyware. Got it clean,
> > but there were other flaws. His nice Audigy soundcard died, but the
> > onboard sound wasn't so bad. However, most of the time I spent helping
> > him clean up infestations of junk.
> >
> > This last time around he got hold of something which is probably based in
> > a rootkit or some other hiding technique. Using the best cleanup
> > software, the main bulk of the stuff would be removed, but after going
> > online for a short time, it would regenerate. When I explained the only
> > better answer was paying money for more expert service, he asked if I had
> > trouble with viruses.
> >
> > "Well, of course not. I run Linux" He asked what that was, and I showed
> > him Kubuntu from the CD on his own machine. He decided that was easy
> > enough, and asked me to do a Linux conversion. We still have his product
> > key if it doesn't work out, but I'm now installing openSUSE 11.0 because
> > it had better drivers for this particular eMachine -- at least, the
> > hardware worked better out of the box. I'm going to setup all the extra
> > goodies he as come to expect.
> >
> > I'm praying he understand and learn to like the freedom.
>
> Congrats on finding someone brave enough to take the jump! I forced it on
> my inlaws due to license issues with a PC they were provided by a closing
> business. That and I didn't want to support Windows and I'm the main line
> of support.

I got my Mother-in-law running Kubuntu on laptop and desktop, my brother 
running it on both laptop and desktop and my wife's uncle running it on his 
desktop. So far each of them are very happy and pleased. My brother only 
complains that his laptop runs a little slow, but that is because of lack of 
memory. I told him to pick up some memory and it should run very well.

-- 
David M.
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