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As someone who maintains 6 computers for 5 Ubuntu machines family members (7 to 80yo) I can just testimony that it isn't painless. Here are recurrent issues:
by dolmen 5y ago
As someone who maintains 6 computers for 5 Ubuntu machines family members (7 to 80yo) I can just testimony that it isn't painless.
Here are recurrent issues:
* printing (hplip): paper might come now or tomorrow
* UI changes
* UEFI boot destroyed by an Ubuntu minor upgrade
At least running Flash is not a problem anymore.
The good side: no hardware upgrade required for years.
- feanaro 5y agoI maintain about 5 Mint machines for my family members (all older than 50 though) and it's completely painless for me. I don't remember the last time I had to do phone support.
- don-code 5y ago> UI changes This, but I'd argue it's not limited to Ubuntu, or even to Linux. For the desktop environment, I've been using Cinnamon with my family, since it's ostensibly most similar in the UI metaphor to Windows. That's luckily been a nonissue. The problem has been Web browsers - looking specifically at Firefox. My mom and my grandmother had pretty big upsets when Firefox released Australis, and Photon knocked my grandmother off the Internet completely (she suffers from dementia and isn't able to comprehend changes in her environment anymore). It doesn't have to be that way. My dad is still using SeaMonkey, and has almost completely avoided this problem - the UI has been largely consistent since the Netscape 4 days.