• foofiepie@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    I just want to say, to no one in particular…

    Our ‘home’ MacBook was end of life / support recently (2017 intel). I backed up then nuked the OS and replaced it with Mint/Cinnamon.

    My wife (who is very definitely NOT technical in any way) has embraced this and carried on with no issues so far, with FF and LibreOffice. It’s been nearly 6mo and no home IT support required.

    Edit: I think the point I’m trying to make is: if she can crack on with most regular tasks that really boil down to browser + office tools, and not be overly bothered about what the OS is, then there’s hope for people to migrate - especially with how distros have become so accessible of late.

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      10 hours ago

      one thing about millenial wives : they can linux through a shitty computer. Technically my one’s been using linux longer (this time round) than I have.

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      12 hours ago

      I replaced my girlfriend’s old Windows PC with one running Ubuntu. Pretty much no issues so far.