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posted by janrinok on Tuesday November 03 2015, @11:12AM   Printer-friendly
from the over-to-you dept.

So it's happened; mom's venerable Dell has bit the dust and I'm being called on to find her a new laptop. Everything I've seen here and elsewhere says Windows 10 is a privacy nightmare and we're trusting Microsoft's forced automatic updates to not break the computer. Dell is still offering computers with Win 7 and 8.1, but Microsoft is pushing the OS upgrade hard and heavy. I'd love for her to let me set her up with Linux but she's devoted to Google Picasa (Google not porting their apps is another rant) and I'm not sure how often she's going to be calling me with some Windows only program she needs. And then there's Apple, which makes my fingers itch to type, but it's looking better and better. So, what is the collective wisdom of the Soylentils*?

  1. Is windows 10 really not that bad and just roll with it.
  2. Is Linux finally ready for Grandma?
  3. Stick with 8.1 and turn off all the updates?
  4. Shell out the cash for a Macbook?

*Irony duly noted.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:01PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 03 2015, @07:01PM (#258057)

    Not just SSH, there is teamviewer, as a desktop tool (Win/ Apple, Linux). Free for non-commercial use. https://www.teamviewer.com/en/index.aspx [teamviewer.com]

    I used to help my brother rebuild his computer in Vegas, while I was in NC. Was online for 8 hours reinstalling and setting up his windows machine. Just had my wife install it on her win10 machine, so I can manage her machine from Linux downstairs (broken foot not allowed to use stairs let alone leave bed)