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A decade ago, when my moms laptop stopped working, I installed Fedora on it and set everything up for her, and she loved using it for years until my dad got her a mac 🙄
Now her mac is deprecated and I'm sure that fedora laptop still works just fine lol
Yes... I think that's probably the solution : find an old laptop, and flash something user-friendly onto it. Make sure it's got LibreOffice, a browser and an email client (if that's her thing).
This is the solution. Also use a distro that doesn't need 3gb updates every week. Those tend to be annoying for casual users.
Which distro should I use? I was thinking of using Ubuntu.
Yeah. Why not?
I was thinking the same thing. I just wasn't certain until now.
I think Ubuntu is a good start. If it runs smooth. The flashy look is impressive for newcomers I think.
That's what I was thinking too. Ubuntu also has the most support, if I remember correctly.
P.S How do you post on one instance with an account in another instance?
That's how the federation works :) You can have your account on one server but follow other sublemmies that your server is connected to!
You can look at feddit.de and copy a local sub and paste it into the search on lemmy.ml and then it will show up there and you can subscribe as well
Ah. I understand now.
I think Fedora is just as user friendly, but better than Ubuntu. But, yeah, I know Ubuntu is popular ( I just don't like it).
True tbf
lmao