I found this gem on line and repost with permission of the author, a14-year-old home user of LXLE:
My Parents Want LINUX!
by “Jamie”
How cool is this? I came home from school today to find my mom sitting in front of my computer on the phone with someone, asking questions about Linux. She and Dad go on my computer alot so I wasn’t worried they would find anything embarrassing (yet, but I just started high school so maybe soon lol), but I’m thinking maybe she thinks she broke something. Really though, I don’t think Mom and Dad could break anything on my computer on accident anyway because they don’t know the root password. So I sat down and listened.
“Well then why is my computer so much slower than my son’s when it has 16 gigs of RAM and a quad-core processor?” she thundered at some poor Indian guy on the other end.
“We gave him that old boat anchor six months ago because it’s old and underpowered and won’t run Windows anymore. He’s done something to make it run circles around my brand new one! I have stuff to get done and I have to borrow my son’s – what do you call this Jamie?”
“It’s Linux, Mom.” I said, trying not to grin too big.
“Linux! I want that on my computer!”
A long pause, then Mom’s face starts turning red. “What do you mean you can’t do that? You’re the professional and I have to have my computer work done by my 13 year old?”
“I’m 14 now Mom…”
“Shhhh!” Back to the phone, “Well?”
Another long pause, a quiet end to a frustrating phone call, and then Mom drops this bomb:
“Your father and I want you to make our computer do what yours does. Please.”
Stunned silence
“Jamie?”
Big huge grin that won’t go away. I don’t even think a root canal could take this smile off my face right now! So I have to do some reading and make sure I know how to do this dual-boot thing. But in the meantime Mom is running LXLE on her computer from a live USB drive and singing a little song that goes like ZOOM ZOOM ZOOOOOOOM!
This makes me a happy boy!
#Linux #Ubuntu #Windows #parents #happy #singing #dancing #iamsofreakingoutrightnow
This is better than anything I’ve posted to this blog. Maybe I’ll recruit this kid as a co-contributor!
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