+1 to this. As technically inclined people we want others to use Linux and have it be a viable desktop. Maybe in some cases it is.
But OSX is a much better one, is very well supported, and also "just works" in every way that matters. She'll still have libreoffice available as well as a large assortment of other apps with shiny polished interfaces and buttons. Obviously it costs a bit more, but frankly she's going to need newer hardware sooner or later. That laptop won't last forever and even Ubuntu will perform poorly really. On Mar 27, 2014 7:59 AM, "Dave Hodgkinson" <daveh...@gmail.com> wrote: > Bite the bullet and get a Mac. > > > > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 12:37 PM, James Laver <james.la...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On 27 Mar 2014, at 12:07, Alex Balhatchet <ka...@slackwise.net> wrote: > > > > > On another topic if you want something that looks like Windows XP but > > > acts like Ubuntu I've read good things about Lubuntu[2]. > > > > In this vein, many Linuxes ship LXDE now. My old favourite foresight > does, > > but there aren't as many packages for it as there used to be, sadly. > > > > James > > >
