<div dir="ltr"><div>My parents, who are...not elderly but totally tech challenged, absolutely had trouble with Slackware, Vector, and Puppy. However, Puppy was their happiest experience and my worst: it required a lot of tuning on my part, but was very easy to perform simple tasks with on their part. Lots and lots of tuning. Nowadays, I just throw Ubuntu at everyone; it's easy enough to manage once the install has been wrangled through, has nice plug-n-play features that keep everyone away from me for the most part, and keeps the nitty-gritty out of the way. Yeah, the frustration of fixing people's malware-ridden Windows boxes just kills me, especially when I keep repeating the same tips to help them avoid simple issues...and they ignore them.<br>
<br></div><div>Sorry, guys. I'm hassled and venting.<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Adrya Stembridge <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:adrya.stembridge@gmail.com" target="_blank">adrya.stembridge@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">A neighbor expressed interest in having her laptop rebuilt after grandchildren inadvertently butchered Windows with malware via "games off the internet". She doesn't have her Windows disk anymore, so I suggested we install Linux. She's elderly, but still has her wits. <br>
<br>Are there other distros than Eldy Linux I should know about? </div>
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