[PLUG] Guiding a geographically remote friend from Windows to Linux
Richard Owlett
rowlett at cloud85.net
Sun Mar 27 14:05:57 UTC 2016
I live in SW Missouri (or as one wag in the group has put it) "He
lives out past Estacada, even." My friend lives in Upstate NY.
Yes I realize that long distance support will create problems.
Not doing it is not an option.
What I suggest will be either Debian or Debian based because that
is what I will be using. It will NOT be Ubuntu as Canonical is
aiming at the same market as Microsoft and comes up with similar
solutions on the operator interface. That is where His primary
problem apparently is. [Based on having known him and is wife for
~50 years.] For the same reason Gnome3 is out. I'm leaning
towards Mate as DE.
I'll take a two pronged approach. I have an old laptop on which
I'll install what I think is a reasonable approximation of what
he needs and he would find comfortable using.
The second prong requires more homework on my part and is what
motivates this post.
I'm looking for suggestions for tools to look at an unknown
system and report on the installed hardware -especially CPU,
clock speed, RAM, and networking hardware.
Windows software [suitable for WinXP or later] would be nice. I
would put it on a flash drive with an appropriate bat file. He
would run it on each of his machines and return the drive to me
via snail mail. [Did you note the lack of user input required ;]
The second option is for me to create a LiveCD [don't know if all
his machines can boot from a flash drive]. There would be a
script which would write the information to a flash drive I
supplied. That drive would have an appropriate UUID.
Comments, other than I'm ... ?
TIA
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