![]() ![]() The classic Zorin OS desktop is very much like her old Windows 7. I had to reveal that this is not Windows at all, but Linux, and explain why we all love Linux. When I showed Mom her new PC, she did ask why this new Windows looked different again. (Tomasz Waraksa, CC BY-SA 4.0) Can Mom survive Linux? What she didn't know is that she would become the crucial part of a year-long scientific experiment named: "Can Mom survive Linux?" ![]() Mom was happy when I declared to fix her problems once and for all. It surely wouldn't do harm to try it with her. I made "the move" five years ago and have never been happier. With nothing to lose, I decided to migrate her to Linux. And I'd be the one to clean this mess-every weekend. But with Windows 7 reaching end-of-life soon, I feared the worst: Without security updates, Mom's computer would soon become a member of countless bot networks, mining cryptocurrencies, mailing spam, and launching vicious DDOS attacks on the vital infrastructure of entire countries. Why does everything look so different? Where is my app menu? What, this pile of tiles is now my app menu? Why is the computer so slow? Why does it restart daily for updates, just when I need to use it?! Why is something (she meant the hard drive) making noise all the time? What is it actually doing all the time?Īnd how would I know that without any ability to look into the source code? My life as Mom's Computer Admin quickly turned into hell with her desperate calls for help.
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