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    [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 3 points 42 minutes ago (1 children)

    For a time I made "little old lady" PCs. My neighbors and customers had no money for a new machine, needed their old system to keep going.

    I'd clean it up, throw in whatever extra RAM I had on hand (HA! "extra RAM"!), update the BIOS, maybe update the CPU if I had one that fit, replace the HDD with an SSD, load Linux Lite. "Here's your browser. Here's your email. Any questions?"

    Never once got a call from those ladies to come back and fix a thing.

    Linux rules for simple stuff like unattended servers and FaceBook/email machines. It's only a PITA when you start trying to stretch out, do more.

    I run Windows for my desktop, Debian Server for servers. Bring the hate! :)

    [–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 points 24 minutes ago (1 children)
    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 57 seconds ago

    installing nvidia drivers 5 years ago, maybe

    [–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 6 points 5 hours ago

    Linux is love, Linux is life.

    [–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago

    Ah, good ol’ thing-thing penguin. I haven’t seen you misused in a while.

    [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 12 hours ago
    [–] JayDee@lemmy.world 54 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

    Put linux mint on my roomate's yoga laptop. There was about 3 days intermittently peppered with questions that were easy to answer, and there hasn't been anything since. Probably the smoothest transition I've seen so far.

    [–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 20 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

    Mint definitely is a god send for non tech people with a generic computer usage.

    [–] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 10 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

    I love it even as a technical person

    It’s great for gaming too

    [–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 6 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

    It's my daily driver and honestly the main reason why I have a separate gaming computer seems to be owed to the Intel GPU just... Not yet having the drivers it would need

    [–] CaperGrrl79@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

    I put CachyOS on the TV PC (hubby's old gaming rig, he got a new one last year before prices went insane), but I only have Steam on it and haven't really played much.

    Mint is the one I usually recommend for people at the Linux Repair CafΓ© I run. I have it on an old HP Pavilion Beats edition laptop. Works well. Helps show what it can do on older hardware.

    [–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 1 points 1 hour ago

    Last year I gave my stepdad a refurbished Lenovo laptop with Cinnamon edition Mint. He has yet to ask for any help with it, so I'm hoping that means it is working flawlessly

    [–] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago

    Ah dang, yeah if you’re not playing something with kernel anti-level cheat it’s great

    [–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 10 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

    Evil tongues might insinuate that they stopped using their laptop in frustration because your roommate doesn't want to bother you all the time lol.

    In sincerity, good job :-)

    [–] BremboTheFourth@piefed.ca 10 points 10 hours ago

    Maybe. But I installed Mint on my 90 year old grandma's laptop last year and she's been using it to attend her church's zoom meetings with no problems.

    Now if I could just get the printer to work without having to constantly delete the CUPS cert...

    [–] aim4harmony@lemmy.world 28 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

    "This is unfixable, sir. I'm sorry. D'ya wanna hear our prayer line?".

    [–] AliOski@feddit.nl 23 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] aim4harmony@lemmy.world 14 points 17 hours ago

    "and all the other greedy companies"

    [–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 11 points 15 hours ago

    Colors are flipped

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 16 hours ago

    Have you tried turning it off and on again?

    [–] TurbidityVonAdvectionFog@pawb.social 8 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    ROFL Um, I just tell them to be very careful. Don't do something you can't understand. There is documentation out there for you to read, and don't talk to prompt slop bots...They can't help you. As honestly, I can do most things on my own, however, helping others is hard. Like too hard.

    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 13 hours ago

    Now get them to install a typescript node stack with versions that actually works with the libraries they are trying to use…

    [–] ladicius@lemmy.world 5 points 16 hours ago (2 children)

    Install Ubuntu, never need to support again.

    For good reasons. For the best reasons.

    [–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 16 hours ago (1 children)
    [–] xavier666@lemmy.umucat.day 6 points 8 hours ago

    Wow, this validates my migration from Ubuntu to Debian a few months ago on my servers.

    [–] AliOski@feddit.nl 10 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

    Because they get support from Canonical with their Ubuntu Pro subscription πŸ€—

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 17 hours ago (1 children)