Jason LefkowitzFeb 23
I occasionally help an elderly neighbor get stuff done with their computer. And every single time, I walk away in incandescent rage at how hard we have made this stuff for people who have not spent their entire waking lives marinating in it
Show threadManc AvGeekFeb 23
@jalefkowit I'm at the stage now where I'm starting to think that giving someone a 20 minute primer on Linux then letting them get on eith it has to be easier than constantly fighting with their firewall, antiviral, and shifty OS every week.
Personally, ive found several problems with Win11 recently that require opening Powershell as admin just to do something that used to take a couple of clicks with a mouse - something that the Windows evangelists always said was stopping people moving to Linux.
I'm now seriously considering a 2nd SSD for dual booting into something, possibly Mint.
Show threadJennifer Moore 😷

@mancavgeek

Yeah, I've got my laptop running LMDE now (Linux Mint Debian Edition) and it's mostly pretty nice.

I did run into some things while installing that you'd have to be techie to get past. There was a thing with Secure Boot and a thing with a WiFi card, where I had to resort to trawling forums and blogs for other people's solutions.

But since it's actually been up and running, I wouldn't hesitate to recommend it to an ordinary person for all the normal kind of stuff.

Dragon (speech to text) had been the last thing keeping it on Windows, because these days my fingers get iffy if I type too much. I did think beforehand that I might have to keep that going on top of a virtual machine. However, Talon seemed worth a try, in its dictation mode. And after a couple of months of adding to my corrections file and getting used to its conventions, I reckon I'm just as fast on that as I used to be on Dragon.

Still need Win or Mac if I want to run Dorico (sheet music creation). That's not an everyday task for me, so doesn't have to be on the laptop.

#Linux #LMDE #Dragon #Talon #software

Feb 24 at 5:52pmWeb