Additionally, what changes are necessary for you to be able to use Linux full time?

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    Software. What’s a computer without software other than an over glorified calculator.

    That was my first experience with Linux back in the early 2010’s and pretty much up to recently. However with changes to my workflow and Steam improving and sharing the improvements with Wine. My software library went from web browsing and office software t

    99% of games, and all of my business software.

    The UX experience needs some work under the hood. There is still a nasty tendency to over rely on the terminal to fix basic problems. (IBT=off for VM to work).

    But its close enough that I can almost recommend it to my grandparents… Almost.

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      Linux is perfect for grandparents or non tech savvy family if you set it up for them. Once it’s up and running, there isn’t much of anything they can do to break it.

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          Not so, it was true for my 86-year-old mom. I installed Linux Mint and put the Chrome browser icon on her desktop, and that was all she used. She only checked e-mails and browsed like Facebook, etc. Every month or so when I went to visit, I’d just run the updater. Never broke and I never really had to do anything. The reason why I put it on, was her PC was getting old, and Windows was getting super slow. So it was win-win. She did not even know it was Linux.

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            If the only thing you’re doing is turning it on and firing up a browser, I can see that working for just about any device with just about any operating system…

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          Practically everything besides computers run on Linux.

          Can non-techies use android phones? Absolutely! They run on Android, which is just modified Linux.

          There are idiot-proof distros out there, less intimidating than Windows or iOS.

        • Kwalla@lemmy.todayyoutomorrow.me
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          Not in my experience. They don’t know how to use the terminal and downloading anything shady online won’t install. No auto-updates, no bloat, nothing but what I put there. How would that not work?