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I just cringed a bit remembering my idealistic but ultimately doomed mission in the early 2000’s to convert an entire organization to Linux on the desktop, comp
by dpau 8y ago
I just cringed a bit remembering my idealistic but ultimately doomed mission in the early 2000’s to convert an entire organization to Linux on the desktop, complete with a test group of forward-thinking, masochistic users who I encouraged to jump off the cliff with me. In a parallel universe I’m on the phone with a user at 3am cheerfully explaining how to use pico to edit their /etc/modprobe.d/iwlwifi.conf!
- StudentStuff 8y agoThankfully on this front most of the desktop environments have come a long way, one can give a user a laptop running Debian or Fedora and that user will be able to install software right in Gnome Software, change wifi networks, display resolution/configuration and so forth without ever using their keyboard. Its feasible in 2018 to give your aunt a laptop running Linux (just so long as its not Hannah Montana Linux or Gentoo) and expect her to be able to go about her normal Facebook browsing, document editing routine without much issue.