Originally Posted by Skybird
If your Dad just wants to browse a bit, do some emails and has no special needs and external hardware demands, a simple notebopok with Linux Mint. Version 19 just came out, good reviews. Easy, fast, stable, no patch terror, no upgrade horror, no Mixcrosoft at all. And best: you must not install any browser and text editor: Libre Office, Gimp, Firefox, Thunderbird all are part of the Mint installation, and some other. The only thing I had to manually install was Xfburn for creating music CDs, and Stellarium.
I have put my parents, age 70+, on Mint diet two years ago, too. My Mum later complained that I had not done it earlier - and she knows nothing about computer!
Google Earth, btw, for long time a shaky candidate that often did not work and shut down, since Mint 18.2 and 18.3 runs stable for me.
Ordinary households without any exotic needs do not need Microsoft or Google or Apple. Not at all. The only thing you need to wtahc out for, is printer/scanner compatablity. HP, Brother and Epson often have native Linux support, for quite some others there are freeware drivers. Its the only thing I must caution people to watch out for.
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