Such loveliness

[eumelia]

My friends, I am writing this from my spanking new computer, my new laptop paid for by the Israeli Governmant with the money they owed due to my faithful service during that failure we call the Second War on Lebanon.
Her name is Frida and she is a Lenovo 3000 N100.
I am looking forward to working on this beautiful machine, which is light, has all sorts of gadgets which I won't go into now.

Right now I'm working with Windows, but since I'm use Firefox and OpenOffice, I'm thinking of taking the plunge and moving to Linux, which Robbie told me he could teach me to use.

To all you Linux users, what can you tell me (a total illiterate when it comes to software) about it, what do you like about it, what makes it better/worse than any other software, etc.

Thanks you for your thoughts, I'm sure Frida will appreciate it as well :)

Comments

Congratulations!

[minodudd.livejournal.com]

Regarding the Linux question, I'd suggest you start slowly, instead of installing Linux as your primary OS, go slow, install it virtually (http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8046) and when you feel you don't really need the windows OS around you, go for it and install it as a primary (maybe with windows as a virtual side dish just in case).

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations - both for the laptop and for actually getting the money. A laptop changes your life! Now you can go anywhere and do anything, without having to wonder if it was in that notebook or the other one.

Does this mean Mummy and Dadday have complete freedom of the desktop?

Love,

Leigh

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

And no, we don't have wireless internet yet, so when while late at night it's no problem for me to plug in Frida to the modem during the day when Mummy needs to use the Desktop, I also use the Desktop, because otherwise it's a hassel to change the plugs all the time, but we should be getting wireless very soon :)

I can't wait for everyone to meet her!