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A decade ago, when my moms laptop stopped working, I installed Fedora on it and set everything up for her, and she loved using it for years until my dad got her a mac 🙄
Now her mac is deprecated and I'm sure that fedora laptop still works just fine lol
Yes... I think that's probably the solution : find an old laptop, and flash something user-friendly onto it. Make sure it's got LibreOffice, a browser and an email client (if that's her thing).
Which distro should I use? I was thinking of using Ubuntu.
Yeah. Why not?
I was thinking the same thing. I just wasn't certain until now.