Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

    • GadgeteerZA
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      41 year ago

      Not so, it was true for my 86-year-old mom. I installed Linux Mint and put the Chrome browser icon on her desktop, and that was all she used. She only checked e-mails and browsed like Facebook, etc. Every month or so when I went to visit, I’d just run the updater. Never broke and I never really had to do anything. The reason why I put it on, was her PC was getting old, and Windows was getting super slow. So it was win-win. She did not even know it was Linux.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Practically everything besides computers run on Linux.

      Can non-techies use android phones? Absolutely! They run on Android, which is just modified Linux.

      There are idiot-proof distros out there, less intimidating than Windows or iOS.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      Not in my experience. They don’t know how to use the terminal and downloading anything shady online won’t install. No auto-updates, no bloat, nothing but what I put there. How would that not work?