Most people use their computers to run a web browser, maybe a word processor or media player, and... not much else. Even someone who has only used Windows can figure out those basics on a Linux desktop.

If the charities are unable/unwilling to provide support for Linux, they could give computers away on Craigslist before dumping more e-waste into our environment.

[–] earphone843@sh.itjust.works 35 points 10 months ago (2 children)

My wife's 90 year old grandma was able to pick up Mint with absolutely no issue. Just put the shit she needed on the desktop and that was that.

[–] MooseyMoose@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did that for my grandmother with FreeBSD many moons ago, on a Pentium3 no less. It ran for years and years like a champ. Booted straight into PySol since that was pretty much all she ever did on a computer.

[–] muhyb@programming.dev 6 points 10 months ago

PySolBSD :)

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