This is the way. "I don't want to learn another operating system!" - My mom, dealing with Windows 10 EOL. All she needs is LibreOffice set to look like Excel/Word, and FF.

perhaps for that particular group… though i had a friend whose old af macbook air had stopped updating literally years ago, and he still used it because it still worked… but then apps slowly stopped working

i installed linux on it, and he was actually really keen to give linux itself a go, and it worked great for him!

i gave him an old macbook a little while after that, and he’s back on macos now, but he said he’d switch back in a heartbeat if there were problems (slowness, update compatibility, etc)

i guess the thing being he’s not really technical enough to care about the OS other than outcomes, but also was actually interested in linux itself to learn for the sake of it… he’s a lab tech, and vibe codes data manipulation tools, so not a lot of IT-related skills, but always interested in learning

for people who do not care about OSs, yes. but if they care about OSs, or you believe they actually want to know about it, you tell them

remember, nothing is black and white!

This is what I do with my SOs mothers pc, she recently complained that the (15 yo) pc was slow to boot so I'm redoing it in the near future.

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