Yup I followed this story a while back; probably when it first surfaced.

There was more; the guy went on tweeting about it. Eventually the Teacher actually tried 3(?) distro's on her home computers; had the HeliOS guy go over and set them up for her and show her how they all work, etc.

It had a happy ending.

Get a load of this story that circled around a while back:

http://www.wkowtv.com/global/story.asp?s=9667184
http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9682258
http://addins.wkowtv.com/blogs/troub...o-ubuntu-story

Which of course spawns things like this.

I'd have to say; for all of my love of Linux - I'm not impressed by the fanboys it attracts.

Also; RE: converting people, I used to have to clean out my Sister in-law's computer of Virus' constantly. She always managed to break something on windows. I finally (between my wife and I, yes, the wife uses Ubuntu too) got her to let me load Ubuntu on it so she can toy with it for a while. I told her I have no problems re-loading it if she can't handle it.

Haven't heard a complaint. In fact; every time I ask her about it she talks about how much she loves how much faster it is than her old windows. She needed instruction on how to do some things (rip her cd's) - but that was it.

Wife's family asked me to provide one of my spare laptops to her brother for his birthday. I set it up with Ubuntu first and told him I'd load Windows on it if it doesn't for him and his College stuff. 2 years now and he's using it fine. (He complained not being able to move documents from his system to his wife's (windows) - we have since corrected that).

Linux is definitely not just for the geeks of the world.


@Livinmalife - Ubuntu should take less resources than Windows 7; not more. I suggest going into your Visual Effects and disabling the fancy stuff.