a good reminder that a lot of difficulty people have in switching to Linux is because their computer didn’t come with it preinstalled, and they’re just not used to Linux yet
Windows has lots of issues that people just became accustomed to over time and kinda forgot were issues, or aren’t issues when the OEM preconfigures everything
Made my father switch to Linux about a year ago, so far he loves it. He has the tech knowledge of an oyster, but so far it worked.
Sure I had some convincing to do at first, but once he realized KDE is basically Windows well done without pesky ads, he was sold.
I still have to do some work from time to time (usually through Rustdesk), but globally it works well.
I have to admit my way of doing this was a bit underhanded (steps bellow), but it worked.
Move his docs outside of the computer to a NAS. Like that no risk of loosing files. He believed for a long time files were bound to the OS (despire using OpenOffice and Libreoffice for decades), so he through that .odt made on Windows wouldn’t be compatible with LibreOffice on Linux.
Once W10 support had ended, didn’t told him about the extension (I’m a sneaky bastard), and offered to dual boot Linux.
Fumble the dualboot (oops, my bad, guess you have to use Linux for the time being, I don’t have enough time to reinstall Windows 10). Who knows, maybe intentionally 😆
Let him marinate about two weeks, forcing him to try Linux, helping him through Rustdesk when needed
When I came back, he asked me if I could install Linux on his laptop. This time I did not fumble the dual boot, but still let Linux be the default boot option
Fast forward almost a year, he didn’t boot Windows for at least 6 months, and is pretty happy how snappy Linux is (despite how weak is computer is, he has an Athlon 3000G, paid like fifty bucks years ago, new, with 4GB of RAM, recently upgraded to 8GB with old stock I had around).
yeah i think this was extremely fair review. if you know what you’re doing windows is not shit. thing is by default for most humans linux will be always better
a good reminder that a lot of difficulty people have in switching to Linux is because their computer didn’t come with it preinstalled, and they’re just not used to Linux yet
Windows has lots of issues that people just became accustomed to over time and kinda forgot were issues, or aren’t issues when the OEM preconfigures everything
Made my father switch to Linux about a year ago, so far he loves it. He has the tech knowledge of an oyster, but so far it worked.
Sure I had some convincing to do at first, but once he realized KDE is basically Windows well done without pesky ads, he was sold.
I still have to do some work from time to time (usually through Rustdesk), but globally it works well.
I have to admit my way of doing this was a bit underhanded (steps bellow), but it worked.
Fast forward almost a year, he didn’t boot Windows for at least 6 months, and is pretty happy how snappy Linux is (despite how weak is computer is, he has an Athlon 3000G, paid like fifty bucks years ago, new, with 4GB of RAM, recently upgraded to 8GB with old stock I had around).
What flavor of Linux did you install for your dad? I inconsistently have people with older hardware who are less tech savvy
Aurora Linux (immutable KDE with auto update) on the Desktop, Fedora KDE on the laptop.
yeah i think this was extremely fair review. if you know what you’re doing windows is not shit. thing is by default for most humans linux will be always better