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The biggest problem isn't ease of use as such, it's consistency. If you set granny up with Windows and she has a problem, you know she can probably find anothe
by jiggy2011 13y ago
The biggest problem isn't ease of use as such, it's consistency.
If you set granny up with Windows and she has a problem, you know she can probably find another grandson or nephew who at least knows how to google for the solution, failing that it's probably easy to hire a cheap tech support person to go to her house and fix it for her.
Once you set her up with a Linux distro , you're probably on the hook for that thing for it's entire lifetime. Granted it's probably easier to find Linux nerds now than it used to be but they're more likely to say "oh, this is Ubuntu.. I only use Arch".
- johnchristopher 13y agoThat's not a problem because good boys and girls come visit their grandparents more often than their linux computer need fixing.
- jiggy2011 13y agoI'd be worried about the co-occurrence of me arranging to go out and get drunk for the evening, granny wanting to watch an important episode of coronation street on BBC iplayer and adobe releasing another broken flash update. "It was very strange! They painted all the actors blue, I didn't like it!"
- johnchristopher 13y agoYou are in the IT/CS/computer field. Murphy's law is part of the deal :)
- Piskvorrr 13y agoNot really - none of that part of my family are Linux users, yet the grandsons and nephews have no issue googling for her issues - as the issues she had were with the apps: "how do I do this on the internet thing" is not very OS-specific, when you know that internet thing is Firefox ;)