[PLUG] Linux for non-computer person

Russell Senior russell at personaltelco.net
Sat Jan 4 16:20:24 UTC 2025


My first question is: what distribution do you use? Since you are
going to be her primary technical support, unless you use some
completely nutso distribution (slackware? lol), I would pick what
*you* know best, so her questions will have ready answers.

-- 
Russell Senior
russell at personaltelco.net

On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM Chuck Hast <wchast at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good day folks and happy new year...
> I am about to install linux on a computer for my wife. It will be a
> Framework 13. Now the fun part.
> My wife has been a real luddite, but he smartphone has slowly showed her
> that she needs to have
> a real computer for daily work. She wanted something small and light I
> showed her the Framework 13 I have, she wants one.
>
> So my question is what distro should I put on this thing that will be easy
> for a very non-computer person to use.
>
> I am not with her all the time. She is in Costa Rica as executor of her
> father's estate, I go down
> there when I can to help, and we are also starting a new business which
> entails export from
> Costa Rica to USA. So she does need a computer (I have been telling her
> that now for many
> years).
>
> So what distro would be best for her to start out with?
>
> --
>
> Chuck Hast  -- KP4DJT --
> I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
> Ph 4:13 KJV
> Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
> Fil 4:13 RVR1960


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