I’m visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux.
They use their computer for the typical basic stuff; email, YouTube, Word, Facebook, and occasionally printing/scanning.
I promised my mom that everything would look the same and work the same. I used Linux Mint and customized the theme to look like Windows 10. I even replaced the Mint “Start” button with the Windows logo.
So far they like it and everything runs great. Plus it’s snappier now that Windows isn’t hogging all the system resources.
Thanks! I totally agree, and I was very pleasantly surprised how seamless everything was.
I was worried I would need to do some manual driver installation for the printer/scanner, but Mint immediately picked up their printer and the built-in scanning app also just worked perfectly without any tweaking.