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I have migrated my parents from a slow laptop (windows XP) to a miniPC with ubuntu gnome. It was easy to say that there were less differences between their old

I have migrated my parents from a slow laptop (windows XP) to a miniPC with ubuntu gnome. It was easy to say that there were less differences between their old "word" and open office than between their old "word" and the new one with the ribbon. It is 4 years ago. The main used applications are Chrome, thunderbird, microsoft powerpoint viewer (using wine) and the default video and picture viewers. They receive many mails per days containing powerpoint files (probably like many old people). The powerpoint viewer is free and works very well (slow start) on ubuntu. You just need to spend some time for file associations.

overcast 9y ago
See, all of that setup, and configuration. For what? Just to have your grandparents running Linux? Trust me, I attempted this multiple times, no one wants to deal with it if something goes wrong, or setting up special configs, or using an emulation layer just to view a powerpoint. I applaud your patience, but I've got better things to do. With that said, I dropped an iMac on my fathers lap ten years ago, and without any instruction, both of my parents were up and running, and they used Windows their entire life.