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My “job” as family admin or Linux rules the house
Quoting: My “job” as family admin or Linux rules the house – bembel.net —
Bringing Linux closer to the family already started many years ago. I started out using Linux already in the last millennium. My wife at the time used a Windows 2000 system. At some point (seems to be usual for Windows systems) I needed to install a fresh system. That was the time, when I installed OpenOffice and told my wife that this is the word processor to be used in the future. Of course, she asked why I hadn’t installed the MS Suite, but when you tell someone with legal training that we don’t have a license, that answers the question without further inquiry. So it was Windows 2000 with OpenOffice as word processro and spreadsheet program and Pegasus Mail as mail reader.
At some point the hard drive of this computer broke and I was lucky to be able to rescue the most important files off of it. Because I did not have a replacement drive at hand, I simply setup a TFTP bootable Linux system keeping all the files on the network drive on the Linux server in my house. This allowed me to use the same box but without a hard drive. So this hard drive crash in the early 2000s allowed me to introduce my wife to Linux.
When my kids got into the age to go to grammar school, they have seen me working on the computer during our summer vacation and also wanted to play with it. Since I did not have games with me, I installed KTouch, a typewriter trainer for learning to touch type for them. They had a lot of fun and actually learned how to touch type in the following weeks.