And tonight, the old computers in the house get Linux Mint XFCE on ’em, and “easyfied” setup with a browser with her account-wide saved settings and little else. the existing laptop is too old for Win 11, and I wouldn’t curse my worst enemy with that nonsense, so we make the old machine safe to use as a backup with modern Linux. I expect she’ll just use the Chromebook from now on, but never hurts to have a backup machine that’s also safe to use. No way I’m going to let her run Win 7 anymore, though – that’s not even remotely safe on today’s internets.
Good to hear everything is going well.
Mint XFCE instead of Arch or MX? I find both less resource heavy than even Mint XFCE.
Yuh, but Mint’s more mom-friendly (:
Mint is definitely a good choice for the task at hand.
And, yeah, that “snow” stuff. We’ve had far too much here lately in the deep Appalachian holdfast. So much so, I find myself nervously looking about for the Others, and their giant snow spiders, to trundle past…
Best wishes to the “parental unit” for her speedy recovery!