So my Mom called me up and gave me her credit card number and said to build my Dad a new computer for around $350. Well I just ordered an AMD AM2 processor, 2 gigs ram, a nice mobo & case, and stuck a high speed 80gb hdd in there.
So after I get it all together, Mom let me know that I can just go ahead and put Windows 2000 Professional on there -- which is what they had before. That seems like a waste.
After talking to her about it, I found out there are only two requirements beyond the surf the internet, check email, load pictures off digital camera that might pose a problem if I switch them over to Linux. Those are a) Dad's Quicken stuff needs to be transferred over and usable without being too confusing of a leap and b) some old documents in Word Perfect and Word Perfect Works (I'm talking Windows 3.1 here people) have to somehow be accessible.
Is this going to be doable in the next week? Even though the annoying phone calls for the first week of getting used to it might be frustrating I'm thinking no longer dealing with questions on antivirus, "they said I should worry about adware, what do I do", "should I get a firewall", "what emails can I open", defragmenting, "why does it keep freezing to where I have to reboot", etc. would heavily outweigh this.
So after I get it all together, Mom let me know that I can just go ahead and put Windows 2000 Professional on there -- which is what they had before. That seems like a waste.
After talking to her about it, I found out there are only two requirements beyond the surf the internet, check email, load pictures off digital camera that might pose a problem if I switch them over to Linux. Those are a) Dad's Quicken stuff needs to be transferred over and usable without being too confusing of a leap and b) some old documents in Word Perfect and Word Perfect Works (I'm talking Windows 3.1 here people) have to somehow be accessible.
Is this going to be doable in the next week? Even though the annoying phone calls for the first week of getting used to it might be frustrating I'm thinking no longer dealing with questions on antivirus, "they said I should worry about adware, what do I do", "should I get a firewall", "what emails can I open", defragmenting, "why does it keep freezing to where I have to reboot", etc. would heavily outweigh this.