Comments on: Five-year anniversaries http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/ K.Mandla's blog of Linux experiences Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:19:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Celsius1414 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47487 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 03:05:34 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47487 Officially and completely switched after being a Mac user for 20+ years this past July, although I’ve been using and learning Linux in earnest for about five years now. I get frustrated on other computers now. :)

]]> By: K.Mandla http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47465 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:55:31 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47465 Half a loaf of bread is better than no bread at all. :) Cheers and good luck!

]]> By: Winston http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47464 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 02:43:36 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47464 My Asus Eee (the original 701) came with Xandros Linux. A terrible Distro, but I was intrigued to learn a little. I put Xubuntu on an old laptop in 2007, but only recently has Lubuntu gotten that thing running well. Meanwhile I converted a Macbook to Ubuntu when I got peeved at Apple wanting to charge me to upgrade to Snow Leopard. The Cheek! (Strangely enough, the wireless card won’t work under Mac OS X anymore. But it works fine under Linux. Go figure.)

Converting new users is tricky, though. The Wife is well wrapped up in Windows software suites. (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Windows Live Writer, the Wacom Bamboo Drawing Tablet.) She tells me she’ll use Ubuntu full time when Linux gets done the stuff she’s been doing in Windows for years and years.

Fair enough. At least, after several virus inspired Windows re-installations, and an identity fraud case, I’ve taught her to boot into Ubuntu when she wants to do any banking or shopping on line. So now she uses Linux for consumption and Windows for production.

We’re halfway there!

]]> By: mrreality13 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47462 Mon, 03 Jan 2011 01:42:13 +0000 http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/five-year-anniversaries/#comment-47462 Mine to have changed i wish i could find a proper way to help friends and family learn too but ive only converted 1 person to linux in my 4 or so years using it.
Heck my sis thinks im a hacker because I use it.:(

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