# Ubuntu for your 90 year old mother!  Really?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-for-your-90-year-old-mother-really/586637>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [June 24, 2011, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-for-your-90-year-old-mother-really/586637 "2011-06-24T00:17:50Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tom\_Tildrum](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e95f7d/32.png) [@Tom\_Tildrum](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tom_Tildrum)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-for-your-90-year-old-mother-really/586637/21 "2011-06-25T04:21:52Z")

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Presumably there’s some sort of remote-access program the son could use to maintain her computer. I use a Windows program like that for my great-aunt’s PC.

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**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2011, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ubuntu-for-your-90-year-old-mother-really/586637/22 "2011-06-26T04:21:22Z")

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> [@Sierra\_Indigo](#):
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> But it sounds like the son in question hasn’t locked down his mother’s Ubuntu with easy-launch options, if she can’t get it to work by a simple reboot.
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> That’s the dick move, I think.

i=i+1

I’ve been staying at a small family-owned hotel; the “guest” computer uses Linux, but of course with a windowed interface, no command lines needed. The owners have already become old hands at explaining Firefox and OO to befuddled users; they had thought that renaming the Firefox icon “Internet” would be enough to get people to understand that it, well, opens the Internet (ok, a web browser, but they did know this is a distinction way above most people’s heads).

If anybody wants an old laptop for shipping costs, tell me - mine’s already set up with a 1-yo version of Ubuntu from some tests I needed to run last year. Spanish keyboard, but that shouldn’t faze you guys, and the red case looks real snazzy 🙂

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