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Ubuntu is certainly for the average user. I just installed 22.04 on my mum's ancient laptop after she's been complaining for years about it being too slow to us
by l0b0 4y ago
Ubuntu is certainly for the average user. I just installed 22.04 on my mum's ancient laptop after she's been complaining for years about it being too slow to use. No tech support so far, and she says it's blazing fast compared to the old Win10 installation. She's used Windows since the 3.11 days, so finding the "start" menu and a browser must've been a cinch. GNOME is probably less of a UI shock than Win10 was.
Asking her to install Ubuntu herself, though, would be another matter entirely. Installing any OS (including Windows, since it's about as complex as Ubuntu these days) is way beyond the skill level needed to actually use it.
- ChildOfChaos 4y agoAhh huh Only on hacker news would people be so far removed from real life that they would say 'Ubuntu is for the average user' And as you said, most people would not be able to install it let alone the fact they likely have no idea what it is, so in relation to this post about consumer lenovo laptops, it's irrelevant and doesn't matter to the vast vast majority of people.
- em-bee 4y agomost people would not be able to install windows either. the average user does not install operating systems. linux is perfectly fine for the average user if it comes preinstalled.