Subj : Re: Community
To   : NuSkooler
From : poindexter FORTRAN
Date : Fri Oct 07 2022 08:01:00

-=> NuSkooler wrote to boraxman <=-

 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.

Getting elderly parents on Chromebooks is a good thing. I bought my mom a 
nice Toshiba Chromebook with Beats speakers and a 1080p screen. She has 
access to Google docs, photos, sync her Android phone to it so she can send 
text messages from the laptop, and she doesn't have to worry about those 
popups claiming that she has a Windows virus and to call a number to 
"remove" it.

Print support was a royal pain, I had to swap out her perfectly good printer 
for a new one that they supported after they deprecated Cloud Print. And, I 
had to buy her a new one after 5 years when it went EOL.

Good for me, though - flip a hardware switch to allow writing to the BIOS, 
burn a third-party BIOS to it and I can use it as a Linux ultrabook, albeit 
slightly lower powered than I'd like.


.... SURELY NOT EVERYONE WAS KUNG FU FIGHTING
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