FAQ for a friend, constructive critique please

So, a friend who I haven't seen in years just bought a contraption. It's preloaded MS Windows, of course. I made a brief webpage to help her out. The series will continue on into some stuff like firewalls and even stuff like protowall, tor, and privoxy, moving into Azureus and ddb type stuff. Right now though I'm in the 'Windows FAQ' stage beginning with administrator in safe mode. I'd like to seek suggestions from those much more knowledgable than my dumb monkey ass. Any real suggestions towards FAQ type stuff for the new contraption owner would be much appreciated and I would certainly give you credit in the text and provide a hyperlink perhaps to your webpage or just greater knowledge (i.e. cyber said this.....)

She's a trip, an old friend and I hope you can put in some .02 Her'es the adress Homey B

 

I disagree with your suggestion to try Ubantu or Debian as Linux for beginners. While I used FreeBSD as my first distribution, I think this may be a bit too complex for some. The best idea is to use some LiveCD distro to see what all the fuss is about, and then maybe something like Redhat where the user gets a graphical installer and configuration utilities.

 

Thanks for the suggestion. Like I said, good ol friend who just got her own pc. What might be 'user friendly' to me might be daunting to her. freebsd ? well she's not dumb. I should do a simple step by step on burning a live cd from an iso because that's how I got the gumption rather than just installing it. I'm really new to the linux world (about a year) so still learning as well.

forget all that crap i said about six boxes, i was drunk. Two are ok, the other four are really only for cannibalizing.... have a tendency to be ten foot tall etc.. when drunk

 

FreeBSD is actually becoming a lot easier to install lately. On my laptop, I barely had to do any configuration for sound and X. I'd imagine it's even easier on a desktop. LiveCD's still are cool because they prove that Linux on the desktop "just works".

Damn Small Linux - KNOPPIX-like LiveCD no more than 50 mb in size, can be very easily installed and upgraded to Debian when needed. Never fails to impress.

FreeSBIE - A rather new LiveCD FreeBSD. It worked on my laptop, but not too well because it's ancient. Seems fairly solid, though, and I love the Fluxbox interface.

I also have 6 boxes or so, but most of them are Pentium 133's that aren't even connected.