On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Bill Oliver <vendor(a)billoblog.com> wrote:
On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Tom H wrote:
>
> You seem to be asking for the impossible. Whether you install Fedora,
> Ubuntu, OS X, or Windows, there are going to be regular updates.
>
> Why don't you install Fedora and put up with having to use an external
> repo for non-free stuff (if necessary) and upgrading every 6 months or
> so?
No matter what distro she chooses, there will be a learning curve, and
that will require help if she's not at least a little computer-oriented
already. If you have taken on the role of helping her, you can't avoid
that.
The “learning curve” is an exaggerated meme based on my SMALL sample.
I’ve migrated my parents from Windows to Gnome 2 to Unity and my
neighbor from Windows to Unity without them having a problem finding
their bearings.
I gotta say, as much as I bitch about stuff like systemd, there's
a
reason I keep coming back to Fedora -- and one them is that
updating the system is so freaking pain-free. And any distro without
frequent updates is a dangerous distro, including Windows and MacOS.
This is the kind of comment that could be made on the user list of
just about any Linux distro or of Windows or OS X.