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My grandma once complained about something wrong with her web browser. She had a generic install of Windows, so was using Internet explorer. I told her she should use Firefox (my cousin was there, and agreed) so she told us to change it.
Installed Firefox, deleted desktop icon of Internet explorer, added desktop icon for Firefox. My grandma couldn't understand why the little picture was different, didn't know what to do to get to Facebook, and told us to fix it so it worked again.
So my cousin changed the icon from Firefox to internet explorer. Problem solved.
Linux is a good idea in theory, but someone really needs to put the work in to make it look and work as close as humanly possible to Windows. I don't have time or patience to be 24-7 tech support for everyone in my family over 60.
I saw this recently and sent it to some folks as a joke (been trying to get them to switch) They did seem more receptive to it, though. https://gitgud.io/wackyideas/aerothemeplasma/
That's awesome, and probably infuriating to Linux purists.
counterpoint, i switched my very untechnical mother over to mint and said "it's a new system, i can show you basic stuff but you should take some time to explore it".
that was 10 years ago, and i never get support requests any more. she hasn't magically become technical, she just learned how to do the most basic things again. the difference is that nothing breaks on its own now.
Want windows - use windows, wtf is all this cringe about making windows-clone-over-linux-kernel
I'm a thread about replacing Windows with Linux on older computers, this is possibly the dumbest question you could have come up with.
Lol. Replacing windows with linux, and for that you want... windows UI with linux kernel. This is so convoluted I repeat my question: what the fuck is this cringe?
So you are unable to give reasons for your actions and attitudes. Have a nice day
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