{"id":1267,"date":"2009-09-27T23:00:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T22:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2010-01-02T19:49:48","modified_gmt":"2010-01-02T18:49:48","slug":"making-linux-friendly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/09\/making-linux-friendly\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Linux friendly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We gave Fred (my father-in-law) a hand-me-down computer because his one is suffering from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbandictionary.com\/define.php?term=Windows%20rot\">Windows rot<\/a> and is unbearably slow. Our one comes with a catch&#8230; It has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ubuntu.com\">Ubuntu<\/a> instead of Windows.<\/p>\n<p>How do you make a Ubuntu computer easy to use?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Turn on Auto login<\/li>\n<li>Remove all icons on the desktop, then add back &#8220;Internet&#8221; and links to &#8220;My Documents&#8221;, &#8220;My Pictures&#8221;, etc<\/li>\n<li>Make sure there is only 1 Workspace<\/li>\n<li>Music and Video player &#8211;> VLC. But change icon to something that makes more sense than a traffic cone!<\/li>\n<li>Ipod software &#8211;> Banshee. But change icon to a ipod image<\/li>\n<li>Trim unneeded software from the Applications menu (by uninstalling them)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We gave Fred (my father-in-law) a hand-me-down computer because his one is suffering from Windows rot and is unbearably slow. Our one comes with a catch&#8230; It has Ubuntu instead of Windows. How do you make a Ubuntu computer easy to use? Turn on Auto login Remove all icons on the desktop, then add back [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":52,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techjournal"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/52"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomfotherby.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}