[ale] Linux for senior citizens

[Ron Frazier (ALE)]

Speaking of printers, make sure that's Linux compatible.

Mint 13 is based on Ubuntu 12.04, and with Mate, without all the bloat and screwing up the UI.  (Just my opinion.)

Sorry about your Mom.  May the Lord be with you.

Sincerely,

Ron



JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:

>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? 
>> 



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