<div dir="ltr"><div>This might start a flame war, but a she might like a chromebook also. <br><br></div>-Erik-<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com" target="_blank">atllinuxenthinfo@techstarship.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Speaking of printers, make sure that's Linux compatible.<br>
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Mint 13 is based on Ubuntu 12.04, and with Mate, without all the bloat and screwing up the UI. (Just my opinion.)<br>
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Sorry about your Mom. May the Lord be with you.<br>
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Sincerely,<br>
<br>
Ron<br>
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JD <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com">jdp@algoloma.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>My 82 yr old Mom used Lubuntu for 3 yrs and was relatively happy. She<br>
>passed a<br>
>few months ago. It was 10.04, then 12.04 - kept her on LTS releases<br>
>for the<br>
>stability.<br>
><br>
>Stock Ubuntu needs too much power in the GPU to be considered for most<br>
>non-new<br>
>machines. Mom started on a P4 but ended up on a Core i7. We just moved<br>
>the HDD<br>
>over and she didn't see any difference. The P4 motherboard just stopped<br>
>working<br>
>one day. The only comment about the new machines was it was "a little<br>
>faster."<br>
>She loved that everything was exactly as before, even the printer<br>
>stuff. Mom<br>
>liked printing things to read.<br>
><br>
>On 09/18/2013 09:49 PM, mute wonder wrote:<br>
>> My parents, who are...not elderly but totally tech challenged,<br>
>absolutely had<br>
>> trouble with Slackware, Vector, and Puppy. However, Puppy was their<br>
>happiest<br>
>> experience and my worst: it required a lot of tuning on my part, but<br>
>was very<br>
>> easy to perform simple tasks with on their part. Lots and lots of<br>
>tuning.<br>
>> Nowadays, I just throw Ubuntu at everyone; it's easy enough to manage<br>
>once the<br>
>> install has been wrangled through, has nice plug-n-play features that<br>
>keep<br>
>> everyone away from me for the most part, and keeps the nitty-gritty<br>
>out of the<br>
>> way. Yeah, the frustration of fixing people's malware-ridden Windows<br>
>boxes just<br>
>> kills me, especially when I keep repeating the same tips to help them<br>
>avoid<br>
>> simple issues...and they ignore them.<br>
>><br>
>> Sorry, guys. I'm hassled and venting.<br>
>><br>
>><br>
>> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Adrya Stembridge<br>
><<a href="mailto:adrya.stembridge@gmail.com">adrya.stembridge@gmail.com</a><br>
>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:adrya.stembridge@gmail.com">adrya.stembridge@gmail.com</a>>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> A neighbor expressed interest in having her laptop rebuilt after<br>
>> grandchildren inadvertently butchered Windows with malware via<br>
>"games off<br>
>> the internet". She doesn't have her Windows disk anymore, so I<br>
>suggested<br>
>> we install Linux. She's elderly, but still has her wits.<br>
>><br>
>> Are there other distros than Eldy Linux I should know about?<br>
>><br>
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