On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Bill Oliver <vendor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 27 Oct 2014, Tom H wrote: >> >> You seem to be asking for the impossible. Whether you install Fedora, >> Ubuntu, OS X, or Windows, there are going to be regular updates. >> >> Why don't you install Fedora and put up with having to use an external >> repo for non-free stuff (if necessary) and upgrading every 6 months or >> so? > > No matter what distro she chooses, there will be a learning curve, and > that will require help if she's not at least a little computer-oriented > already. If you have taken on the role of helping her, you can't avoid > that. The “learning curve” is an exaggerated meme based on my SMALL sample. I’ve migrated my parents from Windows to Gnome 2 to Unity and my neighbor from Windows to Unity without them having a problem finding their bearings. > I gotta say, as much as I bitch about stuff like systemd, there's a > reason I keep coming back to Fedora -- and one them is that > updating the system is so freaking pain-free. And any distro without > frequent updates is a dangerous distro, including Windows and MacOS. This is the kind of comment that could be made on the user list of just about any Linux distro or of Windows or OS X. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
