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As a counter point, I installed Ubuntu on a 5 year old laptop someone gave me because they bought a tablet and gifted it to a computer illiterate friend whose W
by tluyben2 4y ago
As a counter point, I installed Ubuntu on a 5 year old laptop someone gave me because they bought a tablet and gifted it to a computer illiterate friend whose Windows laptop died. He didn’t notice it wasn’t windows and he has had 0 issues. This was over 5 years ago. He uses it for everything and takes it everywhere.
Like I said in another reply: do you have details on what happens when things break. I have never seen it myself and maybe the community can prevent it if they would know.
- wincy 4y agoMy wife didn’t mind Ubuntu on her laptop, except for the initial install had an upside down screen so I had to reconfigure the gyroscope to know which way is up and down, and when her RAM would get full, the system would just lock up and she’d have to restart. She could even use Microsoft Teams for calls with our daughters doctors! To be fair, these laptops were quite old and I installed windows on another identical laptop, but Windows had totally broken Bluetooth and you couldn’t change the display brightness, which was way more annoying than the relatively minor Ubuntu issue with RAM. I never managed to fix those issues on Windows, so I’m not bashing on Linux here. Eventually I bought her an M1 MacBook Air. She hasn’t complained once.