Greetings, I am asking whether Linux has helped your family or not going from Windows to a friendly distribution that caters to young or elderly.

How was your experience with helping relatives or your kids with Linux? Was it because of an older spec machine? Costs etc?

I helped get my grandmother (dad’s side) to move from windows 8.1 to Linux Mint which so far has been good, she only really browses and required some basic budgeting apps.

This was on something like an older core i3 or i5 but I didn’t hear that many problems apart from getting drivers for her Epson printer to work.

So how has it been for you?

  • Lettuce eat lettuce
    7•2 months ago

    Early this year, I switched my parents from Windows 10 to Linux Mint.

    Very old, low power desktop, it was already running super slowly with Windows.

    It’s been great, the computer is much more responsive now, everything works just fine. Browser is the same, Spotify app from the store is great, printer/scanner, icons on the desktop, their ultrawide monitor, it all #justworks.

    I also don’t have to worry now about my dad clicking every weird and sketchy email link and ad.

    Automatic updates are set up, and Timeshift snapshots are too, in case something breaks and needs rollback.