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		naikrovek on Dec 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Linux Evening > I also set up Linux for computer-illiterate old ladies. They love it. I think you're trying to say that they don't have problems with the browser, and maybe an email client. If they're computer-illiterate, they don't know enough about an operating system to have an opinion at all, other than being happy about it turning on and off when they want. Don't mistake that for loving Linux, because it is not really praise of Linux, it is praise for a computer that works well enough to run a web browser, which is an extremely low bar.

lrvick on Dec 16, 2022 [–]

Linux can manage a browser, and email client, and a word processor, on a early 2000s computer found for $50 at a thrift store.

Meanwhile the latest supported versions of MacOS or Windows will not work on such a machine. Those ecosystems demand you continually buy new hardware.

I think is -is- Linux they love here.

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