Linux isn’t proprietary, but the distros sure can be. Red Hat.
tell him to turn up his hearing aid.
Tell AARP to suck a lemon.
They are hated by most people who know what they are.
For their support of ObamaCare they deserve to go out of business. They will never get a dime from me.
Ctrl+Alt+T
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I’m guessing it’s just a distro (Ubuntu, Mint) with proprietary software.
We would have to know more about which distro and the hardware, but there is probably a user unfriendly (from a n00b’s pov) fix readily available.
Give him a CD with Puppy on it and tell him to do a full install. Should solve the problem.
And yes, distros are proprietary. The kernel isn’t.
No matter how much a piece of junk they might have given him, Puppy should work. You need a real computer for something like Ubuntu.
Might be so...
As a senior (used to do application programming) who uses an old computer commanded by Fedora 10, this post caught my eye. I ran a ‘Startpage’ search and found an AARP forum article referring to the “WOW” computer (http://www.mywowcomputer.com/), which on closer inspection is not a deal I’d go for - $999 ??? But it looks OK. I suspect the “proprietary” part is simply the push-button style user interface the rig runs. Also, the ad relates that the upgrades are good for the life of the computer. Kinda suspect the company has factored in a “retirement” rate for the elders to mitigate the headaches of keeping a system current. Seniors are an untapped technological gold mine.