I've always found that, by and large, it's pointless trying to "encourage" family members to switch to Linux. To try and make somebody change how they do things, just because YOU think it's better, is presumptuous at best......and at t'other end of the scale, just downright ignorant. Sorry, but I gotta say it as I see it.
My family are, mostly, firmly wedded to Windows. My younger brother - in his mid-50s - is a confirmed Mac fanboi, and has been for 20 some-odd years. He never wastes an opportunity to take the p*ss out of me for computing "on the cheap".....as he puts it. He'll think nothing of dropping a couple of grand on the latest iPhone every other year, and doesn't even blink an eye at Apple's ridiculous prices. He's of the firm opinion it's worth it...
Your gran is 67? She's a couple of years older than me. My
Mum is 92. If MY gran had still been alive, at her next birthday she would now be celebrating her 124th....!
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Mama tried Windows out when she was nearly 80. She bought a laptop with Win7 installed......and within a few days, she got hit by one of the very first instances of ransomware. She turned it off, put it away in the cupboard and from that day refused to have any more to do with it. I "rescued" it, cleaned it up, updated it all for her but.....she didn't want to know.
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shrug...)
Different generation, y'know? She didn't find it easy at all.....but she'd had her own skills when she was a lass. Always an office worker, in her day shorthand was the big thing to know about. To us these days, shorthand looks like nothing so much as a bunch of scribbles......but she could take shorthand at up to 140 wpm (words per minute). She could type at 120 wpm.....and this wasn't a computer, or even an electric typewriter, oh dear me no. This was on a manual, mechanical typewriter, where you had to put pressure on each keystroke to make it work at all! 120 wpm was amongst the top 5% of typists in the world in those days. She even had official certificates from the Pitman Institute to prove this; her guv'nor sent her away on a 5-day course specifically to enable her to get them....
The Pitman Insitute - now
Pitman Training - is a globally-recognised, UK-based organisation that has been in existence since 1837.....not far off 200 years. Their certificates could be taken anywhere in the world, and your qualification would be accepted at face value......without need of proof, OR even checking up on you. That's rare, even by today's standards.
We can do stuff she couldn't do. But she could do stuff that precious few folks could match, even now. Just think about that. We think we're the bees knees with all this modern technology......yet people had their own highly-skilled fields of endeavour, centuries ago. We're nothing special at all, despite trying to kid ourselves to the contrary.
C'est la vie.
Mike.
