Greetings, I am asking whether Linux has helped your family or not going from Windows to a friendly distribution that caters to young or elderly.

How was your experience with helping relatives or your kids with Linux? Was it because of an older spec machine? Costs etc?

I helped get my grandmother (dad’s side) to move from windows 8.1 to Linux Mint which so far has been good, she only really browses and required some basic budgeting apps.

This was on something like an older core i3 or i5 but I didn’t hear that many problems apart from getting drivers for her Epson printer to work.

So how has it been for you?

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    28 days ago

    Other than printing, it goes well because they know if they were on Windows or Mac, I’ll have nothing to do with it.

    • YourShadowDani@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      28 days ago

      And whats great is my Brother printer provides Linux drivers, ever since I switched off of HP Printers things have been great!

      • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        28 days ago

        Man, I wish that were the case. I’ve been having a hell of a time with Brother drivers for the last couple years, on various distros. I’ve always highly recommended Brother since they’ve never pulled HP bullshit, but it’s hard to recommend a printer where the driver won’t respect Portrait vs. Landscape settings 90% of the time.