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How to: Create a Linux Box for Your Mom (50+ Resources)

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on · 5 comments
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For most computer literate children, a request from mom to get her set up on “this web thing” is met with panic and a feeling of drudgery. Are you about to expose your sweet mother to spam, phishing, viruses, or worse? Or perhaps more frightening, sign your life away as a 24/7 tech support center? Perhaps, but there’s a better way. By setting your mom up on a Linux machine, you can give her a safe, lean computing experience that will let her do all of the things she wants to do without giving you a nervous breakdown.

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Comments (5)

helios ·
Spot on, and I for one "preach to the choir" more than most; but who uses Linux and wouldn't install a Linux System on their Mom's computer?

Just thinking allowed.

If the younger ones don't know about or Use Linux, they are not going to do this anyway....it's a cart before the horse thing. I will see if I can get this posted to some non-linux sites.

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herzeleid ·
> Just thinking allowed.

Hey, no thinking aloud here!
kdwillia ·
The article starts out as a really good read and then slowly turns into something that looks like it was just thrown together. Multiple distros, X environments, applications that are no longer active. I tended to agree with the commenters on the blog that it should have been "simpled" and the applications listed should have been more up to date.

The idea: Awesome The expression of how: Horrid Switching your Mom to Linux: Priceless
tracyanne ·
I do it for lots of people's Mom and Dad regularly. Maybe I should write one of those.
helios ·
I may go the other way with it TA...I have some Horror/comedy stories from the dozens we've done in the past 6 months...some of them still sit me up in a dead cold sweat at 2 AM.

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