Greetings, I am asking whether Linux has helped your family or not going from Windows to a friendly distribution that caters to young or elderly.

How was your experience with helping relatives or your kids with Linux? Was it because of an older spec machine? Costs etc?

I helped get my grandmother (dad’s side) to move from windows 8.1 to Linux Mint which so far has been good, she only really browses and required some basic budgeting apps.

This was on something like an older core i3 or i5 but I didn’t hear that many problems apart from getting drivers for her Epson printer to work.

So how has it been for you?

  • EugeniaEnglish
    4·
    2 months ago

    My niece, my mom, and my cousin are using Linux because I gave them my old laptops with Debian in it. They don’t know how to do anything with the system (not even update it, I do it for them), but they know how to use a browser, or launch a game. Works fine for them like that.

    • Loucypher
      1·
      2 months ago

      At this point you could have moved them to Mint LMDE, which has GUI tools to to pretty much anything, and it is essentially Debian with Cinnamon and some extra tools built by the Mint team

      • EugeniaEnglish
        2·
        2 months ago

        No, Cinnamon with LMDE it’s slower than XFce on Debian. These laptops were slow and some had only 2 GB of ram.

        • Loucypher
          1·
          2 months ago

          XFce makes them snappy like when they where purchased back in the days?