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Who cares if you ARE "grandma". That assumes that old women are technologically incompetent, and a pretty shit thing to assume.

My MiL (early 70's), happily runs Xubuntu on her machine. After getting the printer/scanner to work, it just fucking works. She agreed to schedule the updates in the early morning, so its just done.

She wanted a password manager, and showed her how to install software. That's done now, since we've had an app store longer than Apple.

The only thing she couldnt figure out was how to open an Access database made in 2003. That took me some time to figure out. Finally did and got them exported to LibreOffice spreadsheets.




My examples were perhaps too specific, but I was just trying to illustrate there's many use cases where updating will functionally not exist if not for a forced rollout.




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