• Lippy@fedia.io
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    21 days ago

    That kinda did the trick for me since my old PC was starting to struggle with some tasks, so I went and built a new PC recently.

    Joke’s on Microsoft though, I installed Arch Linux on it instead. It’s so much less work to maintain compared to Windows these days.

    A relative of mine had also got fed up with the Windows BS and was interested in what I was running, so I got her machine dual booted with Debian now to try it out. She hasn’t looked back either, so that to me proves that Linux is ready for non-techies.

    • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod@lemmy.world
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      21 days ago

      My GF is not technical and had an old, old laptop that barely ran, so I gave her an Ubuntu USB drive and helped her boot from it, but she did the install all on her own. She even fixed a printer driver issue by doing some research and installing an updated driver.

      But that just goes to show that Linux isn’t exactly hard if you know how to read.