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My mom uses Linux, btw (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I installed Debian + KDE on my mom’s laptop. She hasn’t had a complaint since. How tech-savvy is she, you ask? I’m sitting with her right now, so out of politeness she put on headphones to watch her favorite soap opera. Mind you, the headphones weren’t plugged into the laptop. She was sitting there, headphones on her head, sound coming through the speakers, watching her soaps like this is how it’s meant to be done.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Mine too, since approx. 10 years already. No real complaints and overall tech-support work-load has been massively reduced. Only the nagging of Zoom to install an app has been a bit of a headache; it exists for Linux but isn't auto-updated from the repositories, and in general using Zoom in the browser works fine, but this option is quite hidden as a dark-pattern. Yeah, I wish her various online-conferences would use something else, but here we are...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

One of these days I need to troubleshoot and fix why my flatpak version of Zoom can't install emojis.