I'm pleased to announce that my 76 year old boss who never touched a Windows computer till age 72 is using the bootable Linux Mint 17.2 ISO on DVD to meet his web browsing / computing needs; includes Adobe Flash.
My co-worker who normally handles his Windows maintenance was out of town, so I showed him the Linux Mint Cinammon desktop on my laptop. My (happy) boss was up and running in 3 minutes. Additionally another of my Windows challenged cohorts installed it on his computer last week; like a kid in a sandbox. The only difference that I can see between Linux Mint Cinammon and Windows 7 is that the Linux bootable ISO works well. Now more technically, if the Linux ISO download passes checksum, etc and is virus free, then a bootable (ROM) DVD is guaranteed to stay virus free; but I suppose the host computer it's running on "could" eventually get viruses somewhere on the file system. Will take anyone's thoughts on that. MichaelL PS btw, I'm writing this email on Manjaro Linux ISO running off DVD, it's an Arch Linux distro with added user friendliness -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
