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[-] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

I've had my computer-illiterate boomer parents buy Macs for over two decades now because I wanted to keep tech support to a minimum (and because I saw the writing on the wall for Microsoft's abusiveness even back then). However, at this point their next computer is going to be running Linux because I genuinely expect it to be no more trouble than Mac OS.

(In fact, their "next computer" is really just likely to be their current Mac but with Linux installed on it, because it's so old that the latest version of OS X it can run is EOL'd. To be clear, that is Apple deliberately making tech support trouble for me, in a way Linux never would.)

[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I have several idiot family members running linux.

Its been zero problems. Of course they are not power users, everything they do is pretty much via a browser. Though one does have a scanner/printer set up (that runs with no issue)

only tech support I've ever done is get the question once a year asking "ubuntu says I should upgrade to this new version, should I?" and I say yeup.

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago

Agree and agree. I'm just waiting one more cycle.

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