[PLUG] Linux for non-computer person
Chuck Hast
wchast at gmail.com
Sat Jan 4 19:08:17 UTC 2025
Mate and Ment were the two I was kind of leaning towards. But I am still
all ears. Glad to find out I am not
the only one who has gone through this. The use of her phone has pushed her
to it, She is continually needing
to do something that she needs a computer for, so it finally connected. So
when I go down to CR I will have
two things, 1 a list of honeydos on the house and 2. train her on the use
of the machine
I am just glad that I am not fighting someone who has been on windows...
That is a sad case in my experience.
It was like when I lived in Florida and someone would question something,
the usual question was followed by
"we don't do it that way up nawth" You get the same sort of thing, "Windows
does not do it that way" and my
desired response to the first was "well go back up nawth then" and to the
second " Go back to windows" but I
never voiced it, at some times really had the urge.
Enjoy!!
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 12:06 PM Michael Ewan <michaelewan15 at gmail.com>
wrote:
> My wife is tech-reluctant, our first laptop came with Windows 8, she
> hated it, so I installed Linux Mint. Mint has a simple to use
> interface with icons for what she needs, mainly Firefox and
> LibreOffice.
>
> 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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