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My mother turns 70, February this year, and she has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years. My mother-in-law is 65, she has been using Linux on the desktop since 2015.

>My mother turns 70, February this year, and she has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years. My mother-in-law is 65, she has been using Linux on the desktop since 2015.

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90% of people could use ubuntu or similar no problem because all they need to be capable of doing is opening a web browser. I think graphical OS's were a mistake however not because they aren't useful but because they ultimately ended up letting the morons in who predictably proceeded to destroy everything.

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The largest influx of retards into the internet was with the advent of the smartphone. Niggers wouldn't have access to the internet if it wasn't for smartphones.

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Basically yes.

Social media lowered the barrier to entry for children and women. Before social media the internet was mostly dudes and everything worked because men ran things.

Everything we see now is basically us getting a glimpse into what goes on in womens minds and a female oriented society: utter chaos and perpetual social warfare.

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And thank god for Obamaphones giving normies access to nigger documentaries filmed by the animals themselves.

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90% of people could use ubuntu or similar no problem

LOL. I tried Ubuntu on the last three machines I built. It was extremely irritating. Right off the bat I ran into the bug that it would repeatedly ask me for the WiFi password every boot. Everyone says, "no problem, just make sure gnome keyring is installed." It was installed. Didn't matter. Drove me so crazy I finally dumped it for Mint. Mint had a bug where the retarded nouveau drivers would cause a hard system freeze every few minutes. The system suggested a binary Nvidia driver that resulted in a black screen at boot and ctrl+alt+f1 does nothing JFC!

I've been periodically trying various distros since my first try with Redhat in 1998. I'm still not using Linux on my personal computers because there's always something that doesn't work that I need to work, and no mailing lists or boards have been able to rectify them.

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Its fun trying to install a basic third party softwaee package.

Installs, doesnt work. Read faq, realise theres something else it depends on you need first. Uninstall. Install dependant package. Fail that because the dependancy has a dependancy on more software you dont have.

Basically every install instruction for linux involves

  1. Press y and enter.
  2. ?
  3. ?
  4. ?
  5. ?
  6. Profit. Maybe.
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Linix users claiming you can do everything with linux is the same as aldo claiming you can do all your shopping there.

Its immediately bullshit as it does not cover all uses, plenty of it is barely useable, and the fact its free is visible in its quality.

Tldr unless youre doing basic ass tasks you need more than linux.

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I've done Ubuntu and Mint without issue but I researched the hardware when I built the desktop. If you get incompatible hardware welcome to a hellscape of installing daisy chains of shit that may or may not be maintained or work with your distro, praying, hacking, and fucking with your BIOS. I mean, if you have a shitload of free time and want to learn Linux the hard way I guess?

That math doesn't compute. Irregardless, if an elderly person can use Linux I really need to attempt to learn it. How hard can it be? I taught myself html and Java when the internet first became mainstream. Granted, I don't use a PC very often nowadays. Not since my ex took off with my gaming puter that I built myself.

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spend a little time doing some homework before you start migrating. Test things out on a virtual machine or some old hardware, if you have something lying around. Study and read up about packages, package managers, file extensions and file formats.

That's the way it used to be. Now, it's idiot proof. There is no learning curve.

Yes, in the past, Linux had a learning curve. You needed to understand a few things, use terminal from time to time. But now everything is just point and click.

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The only pattern there is a retard that cant maintain a pc.

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Hell,I'll switch,just because of your cool emoji on this post.

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What we need is for some of the big game developing companies to release some of their biggest names on Linux only, with absolutely no support for Windows. This will help break the monopoly and make gamers want to migrate to Linux for PC gaming.

That sounds great. Can't wait to see it.

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Never going to happen because its not stable enough.

Why the fuck would i pay for software on a system theres zero guarantee it will reliably work on.