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    [–] LeftReddit2@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago

    Convinced my boomer dad to switch to Linux Mint and, much to my shock, he was tech literate enough to figure everything out on his own.

    I then realized the idiot was ME here. When I was a kid, my dad got into piracy because of those "YOU WOULDN'T STEAL A CAR" things as they made him realize you can get shit for free on the internet.

    My boomer dad was the one who taught me about torrenting, proxies, VPNs, burning CDs, and private trackers when I was a kid because he just loved stealing so much.

    Yeah really, getting free movies is what got my dad into being more techy than the average American. He just never used Linux till like 2025.

    [–] SlayersFan@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    My mom's laptop was dying and as she works on it it was more and more annoying to use due to constant slowdowns and freezes, she asked me to recommend her a new laptop maybe to buy in installments.

    Instead, I went ahead and pulled my mint xfce drive, jiggled it, turned it face down, then up, then down again, I slot it deep into her dell laptop, straight up no lube, then filled it up to the brim with the new OS, even though we started at 50/50 win/mint ratio, mint slowly spilled over windows, eating it up, absorbing it, ripping pieces off, just how Alice stole from Jensen. Consuming it.

    Now win10 is reduced to its cuck chair, still installed, but never picked, every day it passes he falls deeper on the realization he's not mom's favorite's toy anymore, and will probably never be touched or started again, unless by accident.

    [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

    Look all I'm gonna say that about this it is fucking fucked and what the shit. What the heeeeeeeellllll?

    That's wack yo

    [–] SlayersFan@lemmy.world 1 points 14 hours ago

    Had a ton of fun writing that haha, I was so sleep deprived almost choked on my coffee, nice to know you enjoyed it!

    [–] shalafi@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day 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 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] festnt@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago

    installing nvidia drivers 5 years ago, maybe

    [–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 44 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] DonJefe@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I'll be using this at work

    Emily would be honored 😁

    [–] JayDee@lemmy.world 64 points 1 day ago (4 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.

    [–] Ertain@feddit.online 2 points 22 hours ago

    Mint has been my main distro for over 15 years. It works the best.

    [–] BestBouclettes@jlai.lu 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

    [–] BlueOysterCultist@lemmy.zip 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

    I love it even as a technical person

    It’s great for gaming too

    [–] madmantis24@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 day 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 4 points 1 day 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 day 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

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

    [–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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 11 points 1 day 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...

    [–] DamnianWayne@lemmy.world 2 points 22 hours ago

    Just tell them to RTFM

    [–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 day ago

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

    [–] AppleTea@lemmy.zip 2 points 23 hours ago

    I had a windows 7 disc to lend out whenever people I actually knew in real life had OS problems. I'll recommend Linux all day to strangers online, but I'm not doing your tech support.

    [–] Ceruleum@lemmy.wtf 7 points 1 day ago

    Linux is love, Linux is life.

    [–] myyass@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

    I love Linux but man I get stuck sometimes, 20+ concussions will do that. I have an ARM phone and I can't remember how to remove an unwanted repository so I can update. Part of it is having to use a touchscreen but also not reading enough.

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

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

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

    "and all the other greedy companies"

    How about one infographic or flowchart to rule them all explaining all the different ways to install a program, for starters?

    [–] anarchy79@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

    This is subtle but sweet.

    [–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

    Send them to me, I love fixing problems and researching. It’s genuinely fun for me.

    [–] alsimoneau@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 day ago

    Colors are flipped

    [–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 11 points 1 day ago

    Have you tried turning it off and on again?

    [–] TurbidityVonAdvectionFog@pawb.social 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

    [–] ladicius@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

    Install Ubuntu, never need to support again.

    For good reasons. For the best reasons.

    [–] Canuck@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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

    [–] AliOski@feddit.nl 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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

    [–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
    [–] jaybone@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 day ago

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