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| ▲ | arcfour 17 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| 1. It's probably not hard to put her Chrome back where it was and set her homepage to Facebook. 2. These users wouldn't be the people referred to by the article though, right? |
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| ▲ | sndgndgndgndy 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Someone who is 75 years old today was 49 years old at the peak of the dotcom craze, and is probably a lot more computer literate than you're giving them credit for. What you're saying might have been true 20 years ago, but it isn't today. |
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| ▲ | mafuy 7 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Oh no. Not at all. My mother would say "You moved my facebook" when she could not find Chrome. These people exist. | |
| ▲ | lenerdenator 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Yeah, no. Maybe in the circles that we run in here on HN but Linda Q. Senior worked as a paralegal 25 years ago and is still using the email her ISP gave her in 2003. She asks her son to fix the wifi and doesn't update her iPad for months at a time. She just found out about Reddit within the last three years. She gets frustrated and clicks the mouse a bunch of times when a system doesn't respond to her input quickly. She doesn't really grasp the concept of an "operating system", just that the device runs some software. Changing the OS she uses is like tossing a flashbang grenade at her while she's sitting on the couch. |
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| ▲ | wpm 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| Fedora is quite capable of doing absolutely nothing but opening Chrome and going to Facebook. |
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| ▲ | lenerdenator 5 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | And it looks completely different from Windows. The icon is in a different spot. The task bar looks different. DOA. | |
| ▲ | hurtigioll 14 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | can you lock fedora down such that a few bad clicks dont disable the desktop manager and boots it into the terminal? this is the real problem with Linux on the desktop for non-power users | | |
| ▲ | SXX 14 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | If you talking of users who dont install their own software and just use browser only then Linux was better for them for decade. Now you can even install something with read-only system partition with snapshots so not even a power outage can corrupt anything. For non-power users who do need to install something it was never perfect, but now these immutable distributions are here. They have their own downsides though. | |
| ▲ | opan 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Guessing this is just a hypothetical, but if you really can do that (disable the DM via the GUI by accident), I'd be curious. If you told me to do that on purpose, my first instinct would be to uninstall the package. | |
| ▲ | blahlabs 14 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | Which few bad clicks would put a fedora install in that state? | | |
| ▲ | SXX 13 hours ago | parent [-] | | If you do have permissions to install packages you can end up with a system in messed up state pretty easily. 1 - Enable wrong ROMFusion because you need these damn video codecs for VLC. I have like 20 years of Linux experience and I still messe up Fedora in 2025 trying to make video work. 2 - Just forget that big update going in background and shutdown system when not appropriate. Boom. On Windows its just much harder to accidentally do it. Only solution is really distros with immutable root and snapshots. | | |
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| ▲ | imp0cat 13 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | I guess you could use something like Fedora Silverblue if you feel like doing some initial explaining. |
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