There are always stories of people installing Linux on their parents computer to provide them a more secure and stable operating system, seems interesting to share experiences.

Edit: I’m assuming that parents are okay with the changes, or do not care. Obviously do not force anyone to switch OS if they don’t want to.

  • klangcola@reddthat.com
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    6 months ago

    Had great success on Kubuntu. Set up the desktop to have two giant icons only: Firefox, and shutdown.

    On Windows the constant popups for updating various components were causing much confusion Java, flash (back in the day), printer “drivers”, and of course windows itself would throw popups about updates requiring clicking buttons every time they used the computer, which was very infrequently, and cause them much confusion (“what does update mean” ?")

    Meanwhile on Kubuntu all updates go “shhhh” in the background, and no more confusing “To shutdown, press Start”