[ale] Linux for senior citizens

Ron Frazier (ALE) atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com
Wed Sep 18 16:14:44 EDT 2013


ps, if running wine, still look out for windows viruses.

could have dual boot / vm / live cd / separate restricted account / SOMETHING just for grandkids.

remember windows data & people to exchange data with.

Ron


"Ron Frazier (ALE)" <atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

>Mint + Mate desktop, but I'm biased.
>
>Ron
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>Adrya Stembridge <adrya.stembridge at gmail.com> wrote:
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>>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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Please excuse my potential brevity if I'm typing on the touch screen.

(PS - If you email me and don't get a quick response, you might want to
call on the phone.  I get about 300 emails per day from alternate energy
mailing lists and such.  I don't always see new email messages very quickly.)

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