Re: Anyone newly interested in Debian - you're welcome here
On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 9:39 AM Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
>
> On Jul 14, 2025, Greg wrote:
> > On 2025-07-14, Dan Purgert <dan@djph.net> wrote:
> > >
> > >> I think that's already happened, more or less. The issue is that to get
> > >> my wife to use Debian it would need to be preinstalled [...]
> > >
> > > But that's why she has you, right? :)
> > >
> >
> > Right, but her laptop is pretty much dead (won't charge any longer and
> > has only 4 gb of RAM) and cannot be revived for any sensible amount of
> > money, so she must buy a new one.
>
> More the point that "us computer people(tm)" tend to be tech support for
> the family; regardless of what decisions they make on the buying side.
My son is the Windows support person for the extended family (I've
never owned a windows system), and I am the Mac support person. No one
in the family except me runs Linux.
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