[Coco] OT: Computer for a newbie

[camillus Blockx]

"paprt thet hebough"   paper that he bought it

My keyboard acts sometimes funny....LOL


On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:16 PM, camillus Blockx
<camillus.b.58 at gmail.com> wrote:
> If it is genuine winxp, put it back on,make him a restore cd and
> charge him for it. ( cost around $95 Avg at local repairshop) He/she
> can restore if needed next time. Make a paprt thet hebought the pc for
> $0 dollar so that makes it his with all the responsibility.
>
>
> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 10:00 PM, Bill Pierce <ooogalapasooo at aol.com> wrote:
>>
>> Sounds like it needs a parental block for ANY system you put on it LOL
>>
>> Bill Pierce
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Louis Ciotti <lciotti1 at gmail.com>
>> To: coco <coco at maltedmedia.com>
>> Sent: Sat, May 18, 2013 10:52 pm
>> Subject: [Coco] OT: Computer for a newbie
>>
>>
>> I think I know the answer to this, but thought I would toss it out to
>> the group, totally off topic, but I am wondering what OS someone would recomment
>> for a total computer newbie.  I have built up an old Gateway PC and gave
>> it to someone wanting a PC but no cash to get anything.  Well I  had put
>> XP on it, but after about three day they had it totally hosed, with more
>> spam/maleware you can shake a stick at.  So I am at a delema, I want to
>> help the person out, but I am leary about putting anything but windows
>> on it since they want to "play games" did not get into detail on this,
>> but really think I am stuck putting XP back on it.  Any thoughts?  I
>> would love to just throw a simple linux distro on it and call it a day,
>> but I fear that will just be too complicated in the end, especially with
>> him wanting do some gaming on it.
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