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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

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.