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I am going to give my mother a laptop with Xubuntu installed on her birthday next week.
by emilis_info 14y ago
I am going to give my mother a laptop with Xubuntu installed on her birthday next week.
- rdtsc 14y agoI gave my mom an Ubuntu running laptop, 5 years ago. And administered it remotely only all that time. Eventually there was a hardware failure so we'll just replace it and she'll be good to go as well. Interestingly, this was her first real computer experience. While I could get to fix it, my cousin let her use a Windows 7 laptop. There were plenty of complaints from her about how unfriendly, unpredictable and annoying the interface was. It was kind of funny to hear that since usually you hear the reverse (ex-Windows users complain about Ubuntu GUI).
- dsr_ 14y agoMost people like what they are used to; or at least, they associate learning a new method with discomfort. Hackers are neophiles, strange outliers who are willing to learn new things in order to get the control that they want.