If you’re even the least bit interested you really should try it. I swapped my 79 year old mother-in-law over to Pop and she hasn’t had an issue yet going on 4 years.
I did that well over 10 years ago for my mother in law and she loved it. She did basic browsing and a few games here and there, windows always fucked up and had to be reinstalled every few months.
I installed Linux, Kubuntu I believe, and it was the end of it. Never heard a peep again.
There’s still a persistent myth that Linux is complicated and only for people who know a lot about computers. But it’s only like that if you want it to be. It can be very simple and user friendly.
Windows on the other hand is more complicated now than it has ever been.
I plan to do that. But my grandpa goes into ragemode when something doesn’t work as it used to, and my grandma fully relies on buttons being where they always are and where, as she’s nearly blind. It’s gonna take a lot of theming to support that.
Very true, though with windows automatically updating to new versions and forcing upgrades, IMO the time to do it is when they would otherwise be forced to make a full version change anyway, as the differences between 10 and 11, are probably more than a windows 10 themed linux.
If you’re even the least bit interested you really should try it. I swapped my 79 year old mother-in-law over to Pop and she hasn’t had an issue yet going on 4 years.
Pop is only for pop! You need to fork it for a Mom!_OS
I did that well over 10 years ago for my mother in law and she loved it. She did basic browsing and a few games here and there, windows always fucked up and had to be reinstalled every few months.
I installed Linux, Kubuntu I believe, and it was the end of it. Never heard a peep again.
There’s still a persistent myth that Linux is complicated and only for people who know a lot about computers. But it’s only like that if you want it to be. It can be very simple and user friendly.
Windows on the other hand is more complicated now than it has ever been.
I plan to do that. But my grandpa goes into ragemode when something doesn’t work as it used to, and my grandma fully relies on buttons being where they always are and where, as she’s nearly blind. It’s gonna take a lot of theming to support that.
Very true, though with windows automatically updating to new versions and forcing upgrades, IMO the time to do it is when they would otherwise be forced to make a full version change anyway, as the differences between 10 and 11, are probably more than a windows 10 themed linux.
Sounds like a job for KDE Plasma.
And a lot of time customizing
Or just use Mint’s cinnamon desktop which is already pretty close to the Windows layout