A couple of weeks ago the computer my wife uses became so bad in terms of performance and maintenance that I decided to replace WinXP with OpenBSD. I'd wanted to do it a long time ago, but I was worried that the transition would be too much. My wife is not a technical person, and has only ever used Windows, but she was willing to try.
I installed OpenBSD and KDE, with Firefox and Mozilla. She had already been using Firefox and Mozilla, so I copied her old configs & data. She kept her mail, settings, bookmarks, and everything! I had to hand-edit a touch to make them look in the right place for the profiles, but that was easy enough. Since the switch she's had nothing but good to say about it. That's from a non-technical Windows user. Only problem so far: I had to set the user agent override in Firefox so that TurboTax online would think we were running Windoze. Of course their site worked fine with OpenBSD. They were just too braindead to consider anything except consumer versions of Windows or Mac. -- Darrin Chandler | Phoenix BSD Users Group [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://bsd.phoenix.az.us/ http://www.stilyagin.com/ |
