Allen Brown wrote:
Time to celebrate and brag...
On Sunday-Monday I visited friends in Salem who are moving to Michigan.
They have an old computer (133MHz) running W2K. She was afraid
windows had gotten infected by a "security" download she had
clicked on. And asked about Linux.
I installed it. But it was having trouble. It took many hours to
read the partition table. Long enough that I was unable to stay for
the full install. I decided to stay the course.
So she did the last step while talking with me over the phone.
And the install spanned three days, much of which involved waiting
for this slow computer to contemplate its navel.
Please understand that both of them are completely unsophisticated
computer users. But it came right up after the install. She just
edited her first file (from the NTFS partition). She's tickled that
it is working.
They both wonder why this wonderful system, costing nothing, is
almost unknown while the infection ridden windows system dominates
the market.
Of course, the future is always hard to predict. Problems could
come up. But at this point we have new converts. And they know
a lot of people. Bwah-ha-ha! Ubuntu rocks!
Allen Brown
Long and painful though that may be, I presume that the 133MHz machine
also didn't have a lot of memory, so I am not too surprised at the time
to install - glad to hear it all went well in the end
Regards
Fred James
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