[ale] Linux for senior citizens

[Erik Mathis]

This might start a flame war, but a she might like a chromebook also.

-Erik-


On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 8:08 PM, Ron Frazier (ALE) <
atllinuxenthinfo at techstarship.com> wrote:

> Speaking of printers, make sure that's Linux compatible.
>
> Mint 13 is based on Ubuntu 12.04, and with Mate, without all the bloat and
> screwing up the UI.  (Just my opinion.)
>
> Sorry about your Mom.  May the Lord be with you.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Ron
>
>
>
> JD <jdp at algoloma.com> wrote:
>
> >My 82 yr old Mom used Lubuntu for 3 yrs and was relatively happy. She
> >passed a
> >few months ago.  It was 10.04, then 12.04 - kept her on LTS releases
> >for the
> >stability.
> >
> >Stock Ubuntu needs too much power in the GPU to be considered for most
> >non-new
> >machines.  Mom started on a P4 but ended up on a Core i7. We just moved
> >the HDD
> >over and she didn't see any difference. The P4 motherboard just stopped
> >working
> >one day. The only comment about the new machines was it was "a little
> >faster."
> >She loved that everything was exactly as before, even the printer
> >stuff.  Mom
> >liked printing things to read.
> >
> >On 09/18/2013 09:49 PM, mute wonder wrote:
> >> 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
> >> <mailto: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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