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[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Delete some key directories

My grandfather is in need of a new computer, im not gonna try to Linux pill him, which leaves me with a windows 10 machine that will be EOL this year, and just hope nothing breaks with time. I think he would stop using technology if he saw the constant nags and popups in 11.

[-] Liz@midwest.social 23 points 9 months ago

I dunno, Linux Mint Cinnamon is pretty dang close to the standard Windows 7 experience. He'll have an adjustment period of about 2 weeks running into minor differences and then not have any issues.

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 13 points 9 months ago

Oh I am sure of that, thats how I got into Linux :p

But now convince a 70 year old man that the one thing he has been consistently using for almost a decade and a half is in need of a change.

But really I may push him on it again, I've assured him he can get to his excel documents and all that but it doesnt seem like enough and is now irate with the ads in solitare

[-] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 8 points 9 months ago

Can you get away with just installing it and telling him it's the new windows?

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

You know, if there's a real nice solitare applet just maybe

[-] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 months ago

You have a choice. Kpatience is pretty good.

[-] riskable@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

But now convince a 70 year old man that the one thing he has been consistently using for almost a decade and a half is in need of a change.

You mean like installing Windows 11 when he's used to Windows 10 or even older? ๐Ÿ˜

[-] bbuez@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

He's on 10 now, with some gripes that I likely could regedit, it really depends how harsh w10 EOL goes and how hard they try to fill some landfills

[-] joe_cool@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Worked with my 76 year old dad. He happily does all of his stuff on Manjaro. Vivaldi looks like on Windows. And Kodi is even better than the satellite TV crap he had on Windows.

[-] AMDIsOurLord@lemmy.ml 16 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

This is lemmy and I live in a country which gives 0 fucks about copyright, so allow me to speak very freely

PIRACY PIRACY PIRACY!

PIRATE a copy of Windows 10 LTSC and let Microsoft choke on your cock and balls!

DMCA My Ass M$IT lawyers

[-] EvacuateSoul@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Older folks normally do just fine if you set up some desktop shortcuts and bookmarks. He's likely gone through a few Windows versions and figured it out, after all.

[-] smeg@feddit.uk 4 points 9 months ago

If all he needs is a browser, get him a Chromebook. Sure it's Google, which is arguably as bad as Microsoft, but you're getting a simple machine which is hard to break, and Google is doing the tech support rather than you.

Or, if you don't want to waste perfectly good hardware, install ChromeOS Flex on the existing machine.

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