[NBLUG/talk] New linux user

[Robert Hayes]

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
>
>
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>
>
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