Dear friends,
After the recent "newbabes" debacle by Partha-da, it now the time for the words from a
real babe.... in this case,
Malay-da's eldest son, who is all of 8 years. During the days of the Puja, Malay-da's
hda1 got trashed, so no more
Windows for him. For his son, it stood for nothing short of a disaster -- no more
games!!!
This impatient, young person found the wait till Monday -- the earliest possible time
when his father can get the Win9x
CD and fix it, too much for him. He logged in into the Linux partition on hdb1 and
after fiddling around for some time
landed upon x-based games. He initially made the mistake of powering off the machine
without a shutdown, and had to
face the fsck on restart. While he did get a little unnerved, but as Malay-da
explained what was happenning he got the
hang of it. He made sounds of being visibly impressed -- "Its different than scandisk,
kintu besh bhalo!" (Probably the
detailed stats thrown up during the FS checks made him feel more important and
involved in the process than scandisk
ever could).
He appreciates the remarkable levels of control he manages over his favourite game and
acknowledges it is more stable
than it Windows counter-part, which does not allow that level of control, and
sometimes crashes/freezes in mid game.
According to Malay-da, his son is unearthing games that he (the elder Mitra) didn't
even know were installed on his
box. Presently, Mitra-junior is happy with Linux, and the crashed Windows partition
for the moment is off his mind.
So, what about the idea of doing a photo-shoot/writeup with youngsters like these....
something like --> "Too young to
code, but old enough to play -- Looking at Linux from a child's point of view"
...something like this could go a long
way towards disspelling the myth that Linux is inherently user-unfriendly.
If we can do something like that then the next time someone says "Hey, my mom couldn't
use it...iMac's is better"...we
could perhaps fire back..."Well, our kids can use it, sorry about your
mom/grandmom/dad/uncle... guess this 'generation
gap' thing is pretty hard to overcome...." ;-)))
Cheers,
--Indra.
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