Experiences vary. My 67 year old mother requires my help every few months because Ubuntu managed to fuck up itself again. Or because she managed to do so. I wish I could switch her to something more stable (fuck, even Windows didn’t give here that much trouble back in the days), but due to an accident she can’t handle a change like that anymore. So fuck my life, I’m stuck with supporting that piece of shit excuse of a Linux distro.
Can’t you just switch the distro while still using gnome and install the same apps? It’s not hard to change the underlying distro while preserving look and feel. You could switch her over to Debian stable + gnome and I doubt she would even notice
Aganim@lemmy.world 3 days ago
Experiences vary. My 67 year old mother requires my help every few months because Ubuntu managed to fuck up itself again. Or because she managed to do so. I wish I could switch her to something more stable (fuck, even Windows didn’t give here that much trouble back in the days), but due to an accident she can’t handle a change like that anymore. So fuck my life, I’m stuck with supporting that piece of shit excuse of a Linux distro.
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Can’t you just switch the distro while still using gnome and install the same apps? It’s not hard to change the underlying distro while preserving look and feel. You could switch her over to Debian stable + gnome and I doubt she would even notice