I once installed Ubuntu for an 80 year old Finnish woman who escaped the Nazis as a child running across a frozen lake. This was a decade ago. She took to it like a duck to water and said it was great because it made sense, she could easily install anything and it didn’t crash. Give your dad the chance at least.
The most popular stable Linux distros are no more difficult to understand than Windows to the average and below average user. If your dad still doesn’t understand XP, then he never will. Also, it means he is not a power user and can be shown where the internet button is on any OS.
Yes. My dad’s 74. I have no questions that hell have no problems.
My mom’s 71. Her last machine is a Chromebook because she asked me if there was a budget laptop she could get to just go on Facebook. She had no issues there.
“Hey pop, when you turn it on, it looks different until you get here. Just click chrome, you know chrome. Ok you’re good. If you need word, just click the search icon and type ‘word’.”
Also, if your dad is actually on the internet on Windows XP, you’ve failed already… Your inheritance is already stolen if it has any connection to the internet through that machine. Best of luck 🫡
Oh, there was no inheritance coming. He lives in a rat infested house because he refuses to let us help, and rehome him.
But I will go over, and he’ll have 104 internet explorer’s running. 90% of them all pointing at either the food network, or baseball websites. Instead of clicking the row of app buttons on the bottom to bring up his page that already exists and refresh it, he’ll open another internet explorer and go to the page again.
Also, I just wanted you to know I’m not the one who downvoted you. Someone, (I suspect a bot) is downvoting everyone on here, exactly once.
When I get a comment thats 3 upvotes and 14 downvotes, I say “Oh. THAT comment wasn’t popular.” But when I see ever comment of mine is 8 upvotes, 1 downvote. 3 upvotes, 1 downvote. 62 upvotes, 1 downvote.
When I see that, on almost every comment I make, it gets me irrationally angry, because I know the downvote isn’t someone joking. The downvotes aren’t someone actually disagreeing. Its just someone who enjoys spreading negativity. THAT makes me mad.
And in situations like this where I reply a disagreement, it’s easy to think the only downvote is from the guy who disagreed. Unfortunately, thats not the case.
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My dad is 78 years old, and refuses to go past Windows XP. Everytime I go to his house to fix some bullshit, its because he’s riddled with viruses.
He doesn’t understand windows xp. You think he’s going to understand linux???
I once installed Ubuntu for an 80 year old Finnish woman who escaped the Nazis as a child running across a frozen lake. This was a decade ago. She took to it like a duck to water and said it was great because it made sense, she could easily install anything and it didn’t crash. Give your dad the chance at least.
The most popular stable Linux distros are no more difficult to understand than Windows to the average and below average user. If your dad still doesn’t understand XP, then he never will. Also, it means he is not a power user and can be shown where the internet button is on any OS.
Especially The two that I recommended for this exact purpose
Yes. My dad’s 74. I have no questions that hell have no problems.
My mom’s 71. Her last machine is a Chromebook because she asked me if there was a budget laptop she could get to just go on Facebook. She had no issues there.
“Hey pop, when you turn it on, it looks different until you get here. Just click chrome, you know chrome. Ok you’re good. If you need word, just click the search icon and type ‘word’.”
Also, if your dad is actually on the internet on Windows XP, you’ve failed already… Your inheritance is already stolen if it has any connection to the internet through that machine. Best of luck 🫡
Oh, there was no inheritance coming. He lives in a rat infested house because he refuses to let us help, and rehome him.
But I will go over, and he’ll have 104 internet explorer’s running. 90% of them all pointing at either the food network, or baseball websites. Instead of clicking the row of app buttons on the bottom to bring up his page that already exists and refresh it, he’ll open another internet explorer and go to the page again.
Then complains that his computer freezes.
Also, I just wanted you to know I’m not the one who downvoted you. Someone, (I suspect a bot) is downvoting everyone on here, exactly once.
When I get a comment thats 3 upvotes and 14 downvotes, I say “Oh. THAT comment wasn’t popular.” But when I see ever comment of mine is 8 upvotes, 1 downvote. 3 upvotes, 1 downvote. 62 upvotes, 1 downvote.
When I see that, on almost every comment I make, it gets me irrationally angry, because I know the downvote isn’t someone joking. The downvotes aren’t someone actually disagreeing. Its just someone who enjoys spreading negativity. THAT makes me mad.
And in situations like this where I reply a disagreement, it’s easy to think the only downvote is from the guy who disagreed. Unfortunately, thats not the case.