I'm heading home today, after spending a few days at my mother's house. While I was here, I finally got fed up with her asking me to fix her laptop, running Windows Vista; so, I booted up Mepis 8.5 (KDE4), Mepis AnTiX 8.5 (icewm, and my personal choice), and Linux Mint Debian Edition (Gnome, with the mintmenu) and told her to pick which interface she preferred. Her choice was LMDE.
With diligence, I installed and configured her laptop, while watching the nail-biting Jets game (they won). I ran into a bit of a snap with her particular printer (an HP Laserjet P1006), but that is working, as is her wifi, sound, and hotkeys.
I have a little bit more work to do, as far as making all of her data available from both OS's, but my mom likes her initial impression of Linux. Her Firefox bookmarks and Thunderbird emails are all there. She has both applications, as well as OpenOffice, in both OS's, and as a safety net, she has Vista to fall back on, if she runs into a problem that I can't fix remotely (over the phone or via ssh).
Congratulations Linux, you have one more user among your ranks. BTW, fuck you Microsoft.
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