Re: [nlug] Digest for nlug-talk@googlegroups.com - 1 update in 1 topic

[Charles Akers]

Michael, I’ve been pretty much exclusively using a Mac for over 20 years now after years of MS-DOS and Windows. I’ve switched a couple of friends from Windows to Mac (and iOS on iPads and iPhones). Mostly they found the Mac to be more nearly intuitive and “discoverable”, by which I mean that clicking around or using the built-in Help pages solved their problem. But they were willing to learn at least a bit of new ways of doing stuff. (And they found the folks over at the Apple Store could solve any problems that I couldn’t.) For someone who refuses to even make a slight effort to learn new things, I doubt that you will find any computer or OS that will make them happy. Maybe some sort of automated word-processing typewriter? (I’m thinking back to the old IBM Selectric MCST [MCST=Magnetic Card Selectric Typewriter. Back in the late 70’s the State of Tennessee had a fleet of them.] though there is possibly some newer iteration of the concept.) 

Sorry to not have a better suggestion for you. Maybe a younger (70’s) boyfriend to renew her willingness to consider a bit of new learning?

Charlie

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Michael L <helpwit...@gmail.com>: Feb 17 03:44AM -0600 Hello NLUG, I have an 82 year old computer hater that (rightfully) complained about Microsoft Windows every day for 19 years; switched her to Kubuntu LTS when Win7 ended, thankfully skipping Win10 and she's complained about Linux almost every day since, even though it works much better than Windows, at least in my book and I'm the end user engineer that has to listen to all the complaining and make it work. She's not interested in learning; can't explain anything to her; can't have one intelligent word, much less intelligent conversation about the least thing relating to computers.   I want to ask those of you who use Macs if maybe a $1300 iMac desktop would work so absolutely perfectly that a computer hater would all of a sudden be happy? Or if it wouldn't work absolutely perfectly, would it maybe work hands down at least a little better than any Linux distro?   I've been able to either promptly fix or promptly find a workaround for every issue; that is if I'm asked. That's just not good enough; she doesn't want to even ask; just wants it to work. Hardly ever is it an issue of Linux not working; rather it's computer pediatrics.   I switched her from Kubuntu after two years to Ubuntu. I suspect that RPM distros Fedora or OpenSUSE might have a little edge over the DEB distros on overall desktop stability, based on my own past experimentation, so I might give Fedora or OpenSUSE a try.   Should I even consider a Mac?   Thanks to NLUG I escaped Microsoft penitentiary. Thanks for the monthly meetups; they benefit me greatly.   Thanks again, Michael

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