My cousin sister lost all her files to a malicious script on her pendrive, and I am fixing it right now (at the time of writing this). The unreliable pile of crap called OneDrive didn't even back up properly, and well, Windows has gone so bad, it's terrible,laggy and slow on a Ryzen 5800U with 8GB of RAM. I wish she was open to learning Linux desktop environments.

[–] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I wish more people were open to learning how to properly configure Windows for family members who will likely never switch to Linux.

That shit situation sounds entirely avoidable.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I set up my 90 year old grandmother with Ubuntu; she was extremely open to learning. If somebody's got to learn something, then why not the more useful skill? That's better for the user, the teacher, and society at large.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Even a lot of young people are simply unwilling to learn something different if there's any way to avoid it. Your grandmother is not at all typical.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

In my family we make fun of those people

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 7 points 2 months ago

Somewhere, a Genie is howling with laughter at the magnitude of that wasted wish.