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Same story here. My mom (in her 90s) has been using Linux since about 1997 or 1998. And here's the beauty: The interface is exactly the same today as it was th
by jjav 5y ago
Same story here. My mom (in her 90s) has been using Linux since about 1997 or 1998.
And here's the beauty: The interface is exactly the same today as it was then!
This would be impossible to achieve with any commercial system where they break and change the UI and UX all the time.
The setup is build on fvwm, mutt, emacs. All of them heavily customized to be minimal and simple. She's very non-technical, so the goal was to have a kiosk-like experience where everything is straightforward. But the most important criteria was stability, so once she memorized how to do something, it will never change.
The browser is of course the most problematic one as that keeps changing, to endless frustration. I try to lock into extended support releases and keep them as long as possible but that's been the only difficult part.