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Linux and your family (lemmy.world)
submitted 2 days ago by Tekkip20@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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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?

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[-] CosmicSurgeon@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago

Our family runs Debian + gnome on all our desktop clients. The kids love minecraft and java version works perfect for their needs. Wife needs Libreoffice, Brave and printing.

[-] jjlinux@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

I gives me a sense of happiness when I hear about whole families using Linux only. So awesome.

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