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My grandma is currently using Linux Mint with a Windows skin. She doesn't know it's not Windows. Automatic updates run in the background.
by weirdal3333 2y ago
My grandma is currently using Linux Mint with a Windows skin. She doesn't know it's not Windows. Automatic updates run in the background.
- hagbard_c 2y agoMy mother - 86 years old - uses Linux (Debian with Mate, default theme), she knows it is Linux but it does not matter since she uses it in the same way as she used Windows 7: as a launcher for Firefox and Thunderbird and occasionally as an interface to her phone so I can help her remotely given that she lives in the Netherlands and I live in Sweden. Apart from Linux being faster and less intrusive there are no real differences as far as she is concerned. She used to click on Firefox and Thunderbird icons on the desktop on Windows 7, now she clicks on Firefox and Thunderbird icons on the desktop on Debian Mate. There are many more people like her who use personal computers in this way and they are much better off running some Linux flavour which is kept up to date, which does not spy on them, which does not try to upsell them, which does not insist on contrived expiry dates after which they need to buy new hardware so as to run the next version of the intrusive spyware called Windows 11/12/...