Subj : Re: Community
To   : NuSkooler
From : boraxman
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 21:58:20

 Nu>  Bo> I installed Linux for my wife, but to her its just a web browser with
 Nu>  Bo> files on the desktop and a few games.  She doesn't care what she's us
 Nu>  Bo> because she's not really "using" the operating system as such.  Just 
 Nu>  Bo> Web Browser. Sure, the Operating System is running and technically sh
 Nu>  Bo> using it, but she doesn't use the unique features of it, at all.  It'
 Nu>  Bo> like having a convertible and not even being aware you can put the to
 Nu>  Bo> down.
 Nu> 
 Nu> Yep, I have my mother running Linux. It saves her from malware and the
 Nu> like, and just like your wife, she uses it for what she wants and
 Nu> doesn't notice the difference. I even gave her a "Windows-like" desktop
 Nu> so the 'start' button, apps, etc. are familiar. Never looked back.
 Nu> 
 Nu> 

I think I saved close to $1000 on getting the Linux based Thinkpad instead of the Apple Mac.  Now, if there was a noticeably different you could say "Yeah, that $1000 would have gone towards something useful", but as the experience is basically the same, it shows that had we gone the Apple route, we would have wasted hundreds of dollars for, well, a logo?

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