New laptop or how to teach tech to anyone? Part 1
by કાર્તિક
* So, we got new laptop last week.
The entire plan was to introduce my wife into ‘tech world’ or atleast in ‘Debian’ and/or ‘OpenSouce’ world. I visited home for one of this and other personal reason(s) [Expect next post on this!]. My wife reported her first bug (installation-report, with help from me) which was closed by mighty bubulle! I handed over couple of freely available Python books and we started with codecademy‘s Python track. So far, things are good, but being really non-tech person, I’m currently working as ‘support system’ for her.
I’ve used KDE as desktop. Machine runs on latest kernel from experimental due to issues with hardware mentioned here. I was not able to explain IRC in much depth, so we’re using non-free methods like Google Talk for communicating and reporting.
Wish us luck! 
I’ll report Part 2 when things will be enough to report the progress.
Best of luck to the teacher and the student. However, I feel a bit tough when I introduce people to FOSS world because whatever little bit of computing they know starts and ends with Microsoft products. Hope she learns fast and starts contributing to Open Source
Good luck!