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.
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 