another linux convert
while at my sister's place a couple weeks back my brother-in-law, mark, asked about linux and if we could install it on his system. at first i thought, "oh man. i'm supposed to be here enjoying myself, i don't know if i want to have to support someone through the process of switching to linux ...." and then i caught myself. i mean, this is 2007 not 1997. if we can't make it now, when can we?
so we downloaded a linux distro (kubuntu), threw another hard drive in his computer and installed it. well, actually, he installed it. then he configured printing, networking and started exploring all the software that was right there. within days he had the family accounts in kmymoney, was playing web games, sharing drives and much more ...
the only thing he needed help from me for was getting multimedia (read: proprietary codec crap) to work (we really, really, really need a solution for the codecs problem; and it needs to be gratis for users and integrated into the distro), to set up gpg-agent so he could cache his password (he'd never used gpg before but discovered it in kmail and decided he wanted that =) and to share his printer over the network with windows machines.
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