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.

  • wabafee@lemm.ee
    212·
    11 months ago

    Get ready to address hard to debug issues in the future op.

    • Lettuce eat lettuceOP
      1·
      11 months ago

      Not sure why I keep hearing this. I have a much easier time troubleshooting Linux systems than Windows systems.

      Second, I have less random issues using Linux than I do using Windows.

      Third, it’s my parents, who use their home computer pretty rarely to do email, YouTube, Facebook, and print random things.

      So I’m not really sure how the risk factor is supposed to be worse than them using Windows. Especially considering they already had a virus on their Windows machine from downloading some random crap online when I checked.