My wife has had no interest in computing. Period. Oh, occasionally she’ll ask to use my laptop to print a free craft pattern or such, but that’s it.
I bought the PC for her because she’s taken on managing a store much larger than the one she had, and I felt she needed the technological advantage a PC can bring. Up until the day it arrived (she had the day off) she had little interest, saying “whatever” when I told her it would take me awhile to get it running and wired into our home network.
But that evening after dinner, she put it on her lap, located CBS and watched the NCIS episode we missed a couple days previously. She checked her email and said “Hey, I kinda like this”. Now, every night, she’s checking her email and ‘surfing’...though just a little while. I have to smile over it all.
I’ve put OpenOffice, Firefox & Thunderbird on the PC, and have given her an old Palm Tungsten T2 for syncing her schedule. The interest is still there. Huh. Never would have thought...
Yes, computers are a useful tool, but very addictive. At least for me!