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Every time I visit my parents, I find they've reverted to using Edge and don't know why. Despite my best efforts, they don't seem to have the will or technical
by foobarbecue 3y ago
Every time I visit my parents, I find they've reverted to using Edge and don't know why. Despite my best efforts, they don't seem to have the will or technical ability to resist M$ manipulation. It's frustrating.
- fsflover 3y agoI installed Linux for my relatives and they never have this problem (or any other problem!).
- npteljes 3y agoCan I please ask how technical they are, and what distro are you using? And that what are they using the OS for? I'm looking into this passively for years now, and I'm really interested in actual people's experiences.
- sznio 3y agoI installed Linux Mint for my parents a few years ago. They still haven't noticed.
- bgdam 3y agoLinux Mint is the distro you're looking for. Especially if you're looking to set it up for non technical users.
- asddubs 3y agothe only problem with linux mint is that you constantly have to reinstall it because there's no update mechanism
- npteljes 3y agoI have tried Mint, and there was a update mechanism - it was either Ubuntu's do-release-upgrade or something on top of that, I honestly can't remember. But the system didn't look like a normal installation after it, that's for sure. Fonts were a bit weird, some settings were migrated and some weren't, it didn't feel right.
- asddubs 3y agoI haven't used mint in ages (I used LMDE for a long time though, exactly because it was rolling release), but back in the day at least, the official upgrade procedure was basically "just reinstall lol", maybe it changed now
- skydhash 3y agoBased on what I’m seeing from computer usage by my relatives, they wouldn’t care less if they can do these things: 1) Browse the web 2) read pdfs and docx 3) use a word processor (and maybe a spreadsheet 4) play medias like music and videos. A lot of people are ok using their phone as their primary device. And a chromebook and access to google suite would fill the rest of their needs. I’d install linux mint and they’d only notice the interface is different.
- fsflover 3y agoThey are as non-technical as it gets. Debian stable does the automatic security updates for them flawlessly without breaking the workflows. The OS is used for browsing, writing documents in LibreOffice and looking at downloaded pictures/documents.
- coffeeling 3y agoFor simple use, Linux is actually pretty simple and useful. It's the inbetween where you require some kind of power user features or specialized software and aren't a developer type where things get hairy.
- yomlica8 3y agoI mean it is an aggressive set of dark patterns deployed against people with limited time and understanding. It is constantly being adapted through auto updates to obsolete any ability to resist it they have formed. It isn't the fault of the people using this software that they can't keep up with the non-stop deception treadmill run by a team of professionals (guided by their telemetry data) whose whole occupation is to find ways to manipulate users of the software. Well, it might be their fault that they choose to put up with it I guess.
- jabroni_salad 3y agoFor a lot of consumers, using a computer involves a bunch of incomprehensible popups informing them "heres some bullshit button you have to click on to get on with things" until they finally arrive at their destination. They do not know what any of it does and are effectively lost until they get to somewhere familiar. You can trick them into doing literally anything as long as you put a blue button next to a grey button.