[ale] Linux for senior citizens

[mute wonder]

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> 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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