On 14 January 2012 23:44, Thomas Morton <[email protected]> wrote:
> Which is why I recommend something like Chromebook - because it's very hard > to make it do anything else except web browsing. Do we have anyone with experience of Chromebooks? We gave the older teen a netbook with Windows. After the second time it turned into a toxic waste dump - some people just WILL NEVER understand not to click on anything shiny - we put Ubuntu on it. Web browser, Skype, turns out it does what she wants and is immune to viruses. In 2010 I visited my family in Australia. I saw my sister's PC, with the rubbish bin unemptied for three years and every bit of crapware you could imagine installed by my brither-in-law. I suddenly understood in my heart why 25% of Windows boxes are botnet victims ... People on average really, really just can't work computers. Many very smart and productive Wikipedians are in this class. Something that runs a web browser is all that's needed. So yeah, Chromebook or Ubuntu. My personal qualm about Chromebook would be that it's not generic hardware. - d. _______________________________________________ Wikimedia UK mailing list [email protected] http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l WMUK: http://uk.wikimedia.org
