FC3 vs. Windows 2000

[jdow]

From: "STYMA, ROBERT E (ROBERT)" <stymar at lucent.com>

> Dear Fedora Advocates,
>    My brother in law will be returning from Iraq
> in another couple of months and one of the things
> I am doing for him is to build him a computer.  He
> is not technically adept and his computer activity
> is pretty much limited to looking at his email 
> on yahoo and a little web surfing.  Sometimes he
> prints an email or two.
> 
> I am vacillating on building an FC3 machine or a W2k
> machine.

Build the Linux machine whatever distro. Set it up cleanly
for him. Be ready to walk him through some shake down. See
how well it goes. If the "experiment" fails you can always
do W2K later with no loss of money, just time. Going the
other way may be more inconvenient.

The only gotcha would be backing up any of his data that
had accumulated on the Linux version to a FAT filesystem
so that it could be imported to the W2K system.

Of course if you haev a spare W2K already the cost is not
an object. But the experiment might be worth it. Of course
do report the results.

(And above all expect him to be a very changed person when
he comes back. Welcome him. Be proud of him. And learn to
adapt to the changes in him. He will be seeing life's priorities
differently than before. I saw this in EVERY peer of mine
who was involved in Korea or Vietnam. (And regardless of what
society at large thought at the time the changes in the men
who came back were not evil nor did the experience turn them
all into evil people. Most of them came back more adult and
civilized than they left. Others took awhile to unwind.))

{^_^}