Comment on 6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoHas your fiancé had to update drivers? Has he had to upgrade to a new release? Has he had to figure out how to install a version of something that isn’t in the Debian stable repositories?
If the only application your fiancé uses is Firefox, then he might go a long time before having any kind of problem. It all depends on how he uses it.
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
It’s basically a Chromebook for her
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
If it’s a her, you mean fiancée, fiancé is used only for men. And, it’s basically a chromebook in how she uses it. But, chromebooks are designed so that you never have to do any system administration. You never have to upgrade drivers or figure out how to get to the next release.
She probably hasn’t had to deal with that yet, but eventually the system will have to be updated. Over time, cruft piles up and makes it harder and harder to upgrade and manage. Atomic distributions are designed to be much more like chromebooks. Someone else manages the upgrades and the tricky choices, and then you just install their base image.
histic@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Autocorrect on my phone always chooses fiancé for some damn reason but I showed her how to update when I set it up for her and she’s been keeping up with it checking once a week and she’s had a couple questions I’ve had to answer but less then when she was just trying to do basic things on windows so it’s been great for me
merc@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
The thing with autocorrect is that you don’t have to accept the correction.