[ale] Linux for senior citizens

[JD]

My 82 yr old Mom used Lubuntu for 3 yrs and was relatively happy. She passed a
few months ago.  It was 10.04, then 12.04 - kept her on LTS releases for the
stability.

Stock Ubuntu needs too much power in the GPU to be considered for most non-new
machines.  Mom started on a P4 but ended up on a Core i7. We just moved the HDD
over and she didn't see any difference. The P4 motherboard just stopped working
one day. The only comment about the new machines was it was "a little faster."
She loved that everything was exactly as before, even the printer stuff.  Mom
liked printing things to read.

On 09/18/2013 09:49 PM, mute wonder wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Sorry, guys. I'm hassled and venting.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:26 PM, Adrya Stembridge <adrya.stembridge at gmail.com
> <mailto:adrya.stembridge at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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.  
> 
>     Are there other distros than Eldy Linux I should know about? 
>