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vetinari
on Oct 16, 2012
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I actually switched my parents from XP to Ubuntu few years ago (because any support would involve travelling). Since then, the most serious problem was yanked ethernet cable.
Shorel
on Oct 16, 2012
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You are lucky. When I tried that there was no Ubuntu, only RH and SuSe, and of course, Slackware. Nothing like OpenOffice or KOffice either.
My mom did not like LaTeX and went back to MS Word.
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