On 3/8/19 7:23 AM, Andr-o-Mat wrote:
On 2019-03-07 6:47 p.m., T wrote:
On 3/7/19 8:57 AM, dave61430 wrote:
On Thu, 07 Mar 2019 02:42:26 -0500, Paul wrote:

T wrote:
On 3/6/19 6:09 PM, Paul wrote:
And I still don't believe a bit, the stories about "I gave my grandma
Linux and she hasn't phoned back since".

I have a few Grandmas" on Linux.Â* They still call me, but when they buy
a new printer. They also often forget where the print button is in
Firefox.Â*Â* "Its printing!Â* Who'd you do that?", "I pressed the print
button".Â* Then I show them the print button, again.Â* (Linux's HP print
support is getting pretty good as of late.Â* They should still call me
first though.)

I put them on Xfce and configure the toobars to look like XP.Â* And I
snippped

Paul, kowlegeable guy that you are, you seem to have overlooked the
wishes and desires of the typical 'grandma'.
She doesn't want to setup network connections (if they are needed the
helpful relatives would have done that for her), she also wont be
installing virtualbox, or any software that requires downloading. Should
she ever need a piece of software available in the software manager, she
can do it with one mouse click without a reboot. She will not need to
enter terminal mode.
Ah, the wonderful reboot, no need to worry about that in windows, windows
will do it whether you want it or not.
Personally, I would recommend the Mint version of Linux. Now before this
reply generates a bunch of responses or heaven forbid, wakes up GoodGuy,
let me add I know Linux is not for everyone. Some people have work
restrictions and/or need specific windows only programs.
But the old argument that Linux is hard to use just won't wash with a
distribution like Mint or Ubuntu and Mint comes with just about any
program you might normally need.
For those slightly (but only just slightly) a little more adventurous
than poor old grandma, virtualbox running windows 7 is great for people
like me who have a very occasional program needing windows - Intuit
willmaker in my case. Not quicken, use Gnucash and it will import all
your quicken stuff. The helpful relative can do this for grandma.
End of rant!


I have found Linux's various desktops as easy to use as Windows 7
and a lot easier to use than Windows 10 for a long time now.

As for granny, set up Mate or Xfce to look like XP and make sure
she can print, surf, and do her eMail.

The only draw back to Linux is the lack off applications.

Brave and Firefox both work under Linux very nicely.Â* Brave
is faster, but lacks pop up support.Â* Firefox has a lot
a nice developers tools of which granny's could care less.

Brave is my browser of choice in Linux and I agree that much of it is a
lot less convoluted than Windows is. Applications generally set
themselves up in the right category and are easier to install either
through the command-line or the app stores the distributions now offer.
I would say that gaming is essentially one of the few things keeping
users on Windows.


I am liking Brave more and more. On my bootable Linux flash drives
I use for troubleshooting customer's machines (figured out how to get
them to dual boot BIOS adn EUFI), I use brave as it runs
better off a flash drive.