As reported in How-To-Geek, some brave/foolish soul convinced his macOS-loving partner to abandon her sleek, functional ecosystem for the digital equivalent of assembling IKEA furniture blindfolded — aka Linux.
I mean, right? 'sudo apt-get install' is obviously 3rd base.
Have to start with some gentle 'ls' before you 'cd' into the hot stuff.
Seriously, though, Linux is great for accessibility, especially for elders, since you can drive the contrast and fonts way up, and NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE unless you change it. Worked great for my Mother-in-law, who had never touched a computer and had to learn to use a mouse for the first time. This was before Chromebooks, which are even easier.
What doesn't make sense is making someone set it up themselves. Anyone who has installed Windows or troubleshooted a Mac knows that's not for the faint of heart.
> Look, we're not here to kink-shame anyone's operating system preferences.
You could have fooled me...
I mean, right? 'sudo apt-get install' is obviously 3rd base.
Have to start with some gentle 'ls' before you 'cd' into the hot stuff.
Seriously, though, Linux is great for accessibility, especially for elders, since you can drive the contrast and fonts way up, and NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE unless you change it. Worked great for my Mother-in-law, who had never touched a computer and had to learn to use a mouse for the first time. This was before Chromebooks, which are even easier.
What doesn't make sense is making someone set it up themselves. Anyone who has installed Windows or troubleshooted a Mac knows that's not for the faint of heart.
Why would anyone even go there?
*Not* as reported in How-To-Geek. GUIs are pretty standard on Linux and BSD these days.
Once you are in the web browser, that's basically everything.