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Comment Re:Zorin or Mint? (Score 1) 97

Yeah but you're a greybeard Slashdotter, hardly a representation of a normal person ;-)

Valid! (Including the gray and the beard, though my hair is still mostly black. Mostly.)

The point, though is that there are lots of grandmas with varying levels of computer knowledge, many of whom can and should be moved to a Linux system that is harder to screw up. Or, honestly even better, a good Chromebook.

On that topic, I did that for my father-in-law around 2010. I got tired of cleaning up the mess he made on his Windows laptop, so (with his permission) I upgraded him to Debian. It was hugely lower-maintenance for me.

The really funny thing about that particular case is that my father-in-law was a retired Full Professor of Computer Science! His problem wasn't that he didn't have the background or ability to manage a system himself, it was that he didn't want to. At his life-stage, the computer was a tool that he used, mostly as a web browser to buy parts for the farming and antique furniture refinishing that were his passions. Also, he had very thick fingers and constantly fat-fingered stuff, literally. What he really needed was a Chromebook with a full-sized laptop keyboard (a bigger-than-normal keyboard would have been even better), but Chromebooks didn't exist yet.

Comment Re:Weasel words (Score 1) 134

Which is to say, communists advocate for communism, whatever buzzword they call it this week, because the only way they can have expensive toys is to be on the dole.

It's so sad that your comment got a 5 despite your conclusion, which wasn't supported by the body.

They are literally advocating for democracy, which prompted you to cry communism.

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