> You set up Windows for grandma, installed AOL, and then came back once a month to scrape the inevitable viruses and malware out of her computer until the box was dead, and then you bought a new desktop with more Windows on it
Arguably that's a place where Linux has won in the desktop; all my family uses is the browser, some times LibreOffice Writer and Skype. So I'm guessing like me, many other developers installed Ubuntu or other user-friendly distro for the family so the maintenance described here is down to 0.
Arguably that's a place where Linux has won in the desktop; all my family uses is the browser, some times LibreOffice Writer and Skype. So I'm guessing like me, many other developers installed Ubuntu or other user-friendly distro for the family so the maintenance described here is down to 0.