From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Dec 27 12:31:12 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A2837B416 for ; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 12:31:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from caomhin.demon.co.uk ([212.228.234.119]) by anchor-post-32.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 16JhB9-0003h1-0W; Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:31:04 +0000 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 27 Dec 2001 20:29:34 +0000 To: Anthony Atkielski Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Kevin Golding Subject: Re: Teaching parents UNIX References: <1009413895.49812ff2Tom_Parquette@myrealbox.com> <005901c18e9e$9edcc510$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <20011227083931.6c291f2c.roddierod@yahoo.com> <010001c18f0f$875d61d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> In-Reply-To: <010001c18f0f$875d61d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Turnpike Integrated Version 5.01 U Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <010001c18f0f$875d61d0$0a00000a@atkielski.com>, Anthony Atkielski writes >Rod writes: > >> WHY? > >It's the path of least resistance and least effort. Why do things the hard >way when you can do them the easy way? But an OS with things like file permissions actually does make life easier. The biggest problem my mum has with learning about Windows is that she's scared silly she'll delete something important or get infected by a virus. Certainly once I'd set the thing up she'd be a lot more comfortable playing with something like FreeBSD, she doesn't have any major requirements or software needs that really tie her to any specific platform so the only reason she's still using Windows 98 is because my dad knows enough about Windows to be scared by *BSD. I have a certain understanding about what I can and can't screw up, but my mum doesn't, so she's scared of them. There are two solutions, her own machine used purely to learn what she's doing, or an OS with user control and someone to look over the scary parts like software installs. It's not that hard to set up a machine for a parent to use, probably just a GUI, browser and mail client, maybe a word processor too, oh, and a few versions of Solitaire :-) Kevin -- kevin@caomhin.demon.co.uk To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message