[NBLUG/talk] New linux user

[orsini]

Huh? What part would be sexest? My wife is not a Linux geek, but now
she's useing it every night.


On Wed, Oct 20, 2004 at 02:33:42PM -0700, Robert Hayes wrote:
> If Arnold Schwarzenegger had said this, they'd call him a sexist... ;)
> I'm liberal -- don't shoot me!
> (there needs to be an emoticon for tongue-in-cheek)
> 
> 
> On Wednesday 20 October 2004 02:44 pm, orsini wrote:
> > So, I got my into linux last night :) Here's how it happened...
> >
> >
> > her: Where's the laptop?
> >
> > me: It's in the case under the desk, oh and it's a little different now...
> >
> > her: What do you mean?
> >
> > me: Uh, well... I fragged the Windows partition so you'll have to use
> > Linux.
> >
> > her: WHAT!!!
> >
> >   [a wee little fight ensued... she was tired and saw this as me being a
> > pain in the butt.]
> >
> >
> > me: look, the reason I don't want windows on the laptop is because I like
> > throwing new on it and it makes if more complex to have to preserve the
> > Windows partition everytime I start over. [mostly true ;)]
> >
> > her: so, how to I do it?
> >
> > [brief amount of typing to adduser and then tweak Gnome a little to make it
> > look familiar]
> >
> > her: so, where's the browser... oh, Okay. Cool.
> >
> >
> > So, that's it. Now I just introduce her to new apps as she needs them and
> > we never look back. :)
> >
> > rob
> >
> >
> > This story has been brought to you by Debian Linux and all the friendly,
> > helpful folks at NBLug. Thanks.
> >
> >
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