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A year ago I might have been inclined to argue, but my wife's PC died horribly and I "loaned" her my Ubuntu desktop. A year later she's still using it and hos t
by seti0Cha 4y ago
A year ago I might have been inclined to argue, but my wife's PC died horribly and I "loaned" her my Ubuntu desktop. A year later she's still using it and hos told me not to bother replacing it. Replaced her printer at one point and feared the worst, but I literally had to do nothing. It just worked. I think my support time has actually gone down!
- pxc 4y agoI set my uncle (a smart but non-technical guy in his mid-60s) up with a Linux desktop running KDE Plasma several years ago, when I lived we were roommates. During the first few weeks, he would occasionally have a question about how to do something or what something was. It was a gift to replace a painfully slow old Windows computer he was using at the time. In those 5 years, there has been no instability issues and no performance degradation. The content he likes to browse and stream all still works smoothly, and he seems comfortable and happy with the user interface. (He's actually told me that by now, it feels more intuitive to him than the Mac desktops they recently switched to at his workplace.) Light power users are in sort of a valley along the Linux suitability vs. user technical expertise curve right now. But for non-technical users to their left and sysadmin/developer types to their right, the Linux desktop is a pretty good fit these days.
- sgc 4y agoI installed Linux Mint on my elderly mother's laptop 8 years ago and never touched it again until it quit and she replaced it about a year ago. I should have checked on it, but "Windows was working just fine" for her, and on my side I forgot I had even done it since I had lived overseas for much of that time.