Having been down this road before, I’d say the first step is deciding on whether you want to be their tech support. If you do, go ahead and suggest something. If you get them setup on something, you will be their tech support. If you don’t want to be their tech support, vaguely point them at some commercial options. If you are too helpful, again, you’ll end up being their tech support.
That said, the easiest commercially supported option for non-technical people (or people who don’t want to be technical with their computer) may be a mac. It has the advantages of having popular commercial software available for it, its universally considered easy to use, and if they choose to get consumer electronics, its likely they will interface easily with a mac. On Apr 19, 2014, at 1:13 PM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> wrote: > I've received an email from a E.E. classmate from late 60's. > > It said in part "I haven't quite given up on XP yet but am trying > to go to 7. The problem is that I hate 7 and hate Chrome & Gmail > even more - but I'm not going over to whatever you happen to use > - I'm not smart enough to learn something else - and then teach > Judy. " > > I'm a Debian fan. Judy, his wife, has a M.S. in Music Education > (major in piano, minor in organ). In my opinion they are both in > the audience targeted by Microsoft and Canonical. I suspect that > that anything looking like Gome3 would be a show stopper. > > Suggestions? > > TIA > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug -- Louis Kowolowski [email protected] Cryptomonkeys: http://www.cryptomonkeys.com/ Making life more interesting for people since 1977
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