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How about this, you don't need Windows. My mum runs Linux and has been for 10 years! No more support phonecalls!
by unixhero 1y ago
How about this, you don't need Windows. My mum runs Linux and has been for 10 years! No more support phonecalls!
- theandrewbailey 1y agoAgreed! I replaced XP with Xubuntu (my preferred distro at the time) on my parent's computer about 15 years ago. I told them that "it works like Windows[0]", showed them how to check email, browse the web, play solitare, and shut down. Even the random HP printer + scanner worked great! I expected a call from them to "put it back to what it was", but it never happened. (The closest was Mom wondering why solitare (the gnome-games version) was different, then guided her on how to change the game type to klondike.) [0] If "it [Xubuntu] works like Windows" offended you, I'd like to point out that normies don't care about how operating system kernels are designed. They care about things like a start menu, and that the X in the corner closes programs.