Not very amusing that it takes "a remasterized live usb from an experienced Gnome user" to make Gnome usable. Xfce and similar DEs (I personally don't know Mate and siblings, but I will assume) are very predictable and usable out of the box and won't surprise you with any unexpected behaviour. Just like Gnome 2 was.
Maybe I wrote this before... my brother (75) had used macOS since it's very beginning. A year ago, his Macbook broke irrecoveribly. He bought a new affordable laptop, got Windows replaced by Xubuntu (unfortunately I was a Xubuntu user at that time myself before I switched to Debian 12). Of course it took him some time to establish new habits, but the learning curve was very moderate and he could do his work.
As for backup, I agree that backing up and restoring always should be the first thing to learn when starting to use computers or an unknown OS. Here comes my second point of annoyance: Why for heaven's sake is this DejaDup thing always recommended as a backup tool? It shreds your data and you need exactly the same version of the tool installed to restore. Both is absolutely no-go when it comes to backup and restore. A real backup may never mess around with your file content and structure, and restoring files has to be possible without any tools except the cp command or the file manager. But I am getting off-topic now...
Maybe I wrote this before... my brother (75) had used macOS since it's very beginning. A year ago, his Macbook broke irrecoveribly. He bought a new affordable laptop, got Windows replaced by Xubuntu (unfortunately I was a Xubuntu user at that time myself before I switched to Debian 12). Of course it took him some time to establish new habits, but the learning curve was very moderate and he could do his work.
As for backup, I agree that backing up and restoring always should be the first thing to learn when starting to use computers or an unknown OS. Here comes my second point of annoyance: Why for heaven's sake is this DejaDup thing always recommended as a backup tool? It shreds your data and you need exactly the same version of the tool installed to restore. Both is absolutely no-go when it comes to backup and restore. A real backup may never mess around with your file content and structure, and restoring files has to be possible without any tools except the cp command or the file manager. But I am getting off-topic now...
Statistics: Posted by juribel — 2024-10-12 21:15 — Replies 27 — Views 1131