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Cake day: December 6th, 2024

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  • Yeah, I’m thinking it couldn’t be worse than windows is now. It even sometimes will drop wifi connection. So how much worse could Linux be.

    My main concern for her is how often she edits documents. Since she gets her pension, she needs to do paperwork for it occasionally, so I don’t want formatting to mess something up for her.


  • I was just looking at that windows 11 list yesterday. My mother-in-law has a 7th gen i3.

    She’s not eligible to get windows 11, but her computer works surprisingly quickly. Well it did after I removed 2 different antivirus programs from it.

    But it’s fine for what she uses it for “Netflix”, maybe an occasional dock.

    No, Microsoft, I’m not buying her a new computer for that. If ever, she’d just get an iPad.

    My wife’s in favor of just letting the computer get infected if it gets infected since it’s just a Netflix machine.

    I’m not here to debate whether that’s a good idea or not, but I’m here to say that this is what is going to happen for the majority of people.

    I’ll probably end up putting Linux Mint on it if the WiFi card will play nice, but I expect that it will.