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My mother died a few years back, but my choice of OS was driven by finding someone who could give her local support. Telephone support just wasn't possible, bec

My mother died a few years back, but my choice of OS was driven by finding someone who could give her local support. Telephone support just wasn't possible, because she was completely tech-illiterate and would get into some really strange situations, and get really impatient when I couldn't wave a magic wand through the phone connection. There was a retired gentleman in her area who made a hobby of helping other elderly folk. He used Apple, so she used Apple. If he'd used Windows, or Linux, or whatever - then that's what she would have used.

UncleEntity 3y ago
> There was a retired gentleman in her area who made a hobby of helping other elderly folk. Kudos to that guy. My mom is pretty good at figuring things out, she would sometimes ask me to help and if I couldn't figure it out (mostly because I've been using linux since the Windows ME shitshow) she would poke at it until it was fixed. She also has a couple embroidering machines and a crazy robo-sewing machine she likes to use so is motivated to do stuff on her own. My step-dad... he took a windows class through his work before he retired in the 90's and likes to break thing in fun and exciting ways, almost always wifi for some reason. Then my mom will look at it until he pisses her off and he has to go without a laptop until either myself or my bro-in-law visits and he 'allows' us to fix it. It would be tragic if my mom didn't find it amusing TBH. Now they have some sort of tech support that remotes into the machines when my step dad gets to fiddling. I made sure it wasn't one of those scams and they seem to be happy bickering about who does the grocery shopping instead of PCs so all's well in the household.