CrunchBang Linux

Thanks for the warm welcome. machinebacon (great name BTW), that is not a bad idea. The thing is that she has been using linux with me since "the move" a few years ago, but lately she has been using nothing but her tablet...yeah....that one...the number two. However, when she needs to do some real task she just goes to the main machine and refuses to learn another system. PLCOS fit the bill, and as long as it is linux is all good.

I also miss-wrote there, or I should have been more clear on the old-ish computer thing. What I like to do is to find friends and people I know who think they have an old-useless-slow-windows machine, take it home, install linux and then say; "Hey, remember that "old" computer you gave me because it was done..." They usually say something like "Well, but you know stuff about computers and the guys at the store told me that I was lucky to have squeezed five years out of that machine, because the way technology goes these days....bla, bla, bla". So far I have been able to resurrect three of those machines and gave them to students with interest and aptitude in computers and that have no means to buy them. Hard working kids get computers, landfill gets little less trash, I get to play and learn with computers, and the linux virtues get spread through the world. The way I see it everybody wins... except for my friends who keep buying windows machines. 

Oh, and a ps/2 mouse? C'mon! that wasn't that long ago. We still have a bunch of mice and computers in school with that type of connector. As  matter a fact, all computers that I own (except for my main which is only months old ) have them.