clif

This is exactly the comment I opened this thread to find. Thank you.

Not at all. It's more of "I'm used to windows, change is scary"

There are still some things that are win/mac only and if you're heavily invested in them it can be hard to migrate to Linux based FOSS alternatives (or, VM/WINE/etc). But, most "normal" (non-geek) people aren't keen on throwing away all of their experience on one specific application to learn a new, different, one... Regardless of feature parity.

I haven't looked in several years, but noob friendly CAD is one example. I ended up using browser based ones since I couldn't find an easy offline one. "Easy" is the key here - there are pretty great FOSS CAD suites, they just aren't super friendly to stupid people (me).

Though, that may have changed, if you've got recommendations please let me know.

I appreciates that about you.

I don't know if I've actually seen one of your posts, but thank you nonetheless.

The cycle continues

Similar : my spouse was complaining about how slow her laptop was and that she'd probably have to buy a new one. I popped a bootable Mint USB in and she was impressed that it was "like new".

I left her on the bootable for a week as a trial then installed it to the HD. 99% of what she does is browser based anyway.

Don't mind me, I'm just going to keep up voting these posts because they're so well done.

I'm old but the shortest my hair has been in the past 35 or 40 years is shoulder length. Every other spring I have the spouse chop it off to shoulder length then let it go again for two years.

I'm also in Arkansas.

But, not a kid so I guess it's okay for me to be my filthy hippie / sasquatch self according to this proposal.

Yeah... I should expand. The penguins are just my favorite part of those movies and it matches the Linux motif that I started with yet falls apart, you know, when I name a windows laptop rico-w : P

They can both be awful : )

Mine are named after the penguins from the Madagascar movie : Skipper, Private, Kowalski, and Rico.

Unfortunately there's only four so I often supplement with a suffix. For example, I've got an old windows laptop kicking around that is "rico-w"

... I should really commit to a naming scheme with a wider array of options.