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Linux and your family
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this post was submitted on 19 Oct 2024
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I set my mom (62) up an old laptop running Ubuntu last year when her laptop was stolen out of my sister's car. She's adjusted fairly well to it. She needed a lot of hands on support at first and any time she uses her printer, but she has figured out how to do a lot of things on it on her own.
She makes papercraft activities in inkscape for a weekly storytime she hosts at a bookstore and has gotten very proficient, but still needs some hand holding when printing errors crop up.
Told my wife and kids they can run whatever they want if they don't involve me. If you want me to help with computer issues then I'm installing Linux.
If you don't want that, you better learn how to computer because you're on your own