For example, I saw a post the other day detailing how to set up a Brother laser printer on Kinoite. That’s not something I would have initially considered a potential problem to be solved. Another I ran into some years ago had to do with an Edimax WiFi dongle that used some weirdly specific Realtek 8812 radio, for which you had to set up the driver via dkms. A little prep and knowledge in advance would have saved days of searching online.
I’ve started a personal to-do list of things to research and make sure I have all my ducks in a row before I make the full-time switch on my main desktop, so besides the usual “back up your files” advice, I’m hoping y’all can point out some QoL things I and others may often miss!
There have been major strides to make first time setups stupid-proof in a lot of distros, to the point that I think we’re seeing the beginnings of a demographic shift.
And like in your dad’s case, sometimes browsing the internet, getting on Zoom, and printing some files are all people really want.
Yeah, especially boomers, which is what my dad is. My generation will be a little more demanding; millenials are the first “computer” generation, who grew up with them. Gen Z had computers since they were infants. That’s going to be interesting.