The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment - It’s not about Ubuntu

Posted by Landon Cox on April 29th, 2008 in Community, General, technology

The Great Ubuntu-Girlfriend Experiment has been making the rounds and has been quite amusing from many angles.

Ironically, I received this email from my Mom a few minutes ago:

“I keep getting a notice on the screen that I should install the latest version of Flash. Seems like nothing is working right this morning on the usual things I look at like the NY Times, eBay, etc. Is this all connected? Is the Flash Update free? What do I do? Help.

Mom
“

Sounds almost identical to the failures in the Ubuntu girlfriend experiment.

The kicker? My Mom is running OS X.

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  1. perspectoff said, on May 1st, 2008 at 9:40 am

    He did the wrong experiment.

    Kubunjtu (KDE desktop instead of the frustrating Gnome desktop found on Ubuntu) is much easier to use for previous users of Windows.

    In fact, it can be set to act almost identically to MS Windows, if so desired.

    I did the experiment with myh 8 year old daughter with Kubuntu.

    She fared much better than the aforementioned girlfriend.

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