I wasnt really expecting it. She hates computers in general and change in particular, using computers for simple communication, Internet research, and basic productivity tasks.
She didnt like Fedora or OpenSUSE during her brief sojourn with each over the last few days. So when I tossed on Ubuntu (even after I found that the latest beta worked like a champ on her finicky laptop), I didnt hold out a lot of hope.
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