@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agopleaselemmy.worldimagemessage-square209fedilinkarrow-up11.79K
arrow-up11.79Kimagepleaselemmy.world@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year agomessage-square209fedilink
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish7•1 year agoI wish more people were open to learning how to properly configure Windows for family members who will likely never switch to Linux. That shit situation sounds entirely avoidable.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoI set up my 90 year old grandmother with Ubuntu; she was extremely open to learning. If somebody’s got to learn something, then why not the more useful skill? That’s better for the user, the teacher, and society at large.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish2•1 year agoEven a lot of young people are simply unwilling to learn something different if there’s any way to avoid it. Your grandmother is not at all typical.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilinkEnglish3•1 year agoIn my family we make fun of those people
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink7•1 year agoSomewhere, a Genie is howling with laughter at the magnitude of that wasted wish.
I wish more people were open to learning how to properly configure Windows for family members who will likely never switch to Linux.
That shit situation sounds entirely avoidable.
I set up my 90 year old grandmother with Ubuntu; she was extremely open to learning. If somebody’s got to learn something, then why not the more useful skill? That’s better for the user, the teacher, and society at large.
Even a lot of young people are simply unwilling to learn something different if there’s any way to avoid it. Your grandmother is not at all typical.
In my family we make fun of those people
Somewhere, a Genie is howling with laughter at the magnitude of that wasted wish.