My wife is tech-reluctant, our first laptop came with Windows 8, she hated it, so I installed Linux Mint. Mint has a simple to use interface with icons for what she needs, mainly Firefox and LibreOffice.
On Sat, Jan 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM Chuck Hast <[email protected]> wrote: > > Good day folks and happy new year... > I am about to install linux on a computer for my wife. It will be a > Framework 13. Now the fun part. > My wife has been a real luddite, but he smartphone has slowly showed her > that she needs to have > a real computer for daily work. She wanted something small and light I > showed her the Framework 13 I have, she wants one. > > So my question is what distro should I put on this thing that will be easy > for a very non-computer person to use. > > I am not with her all the time. She is in Costa Rica as executor of her > father's estate, I go down > there when I can to help, and we are also starting a new business which > entails export from > Costa Rica to USA. So she does need a computer (I have been telling her > that now for many > years). > > So what distro would be best for her to start out with? > > -- > > Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- > I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. > Ph 4:13 KJV > Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. > Fil 4:13 RVR1960
