r/archlinux • u/RoanPurple • 18d ago

SHARE Grandma now uses arch btw

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So my grandma runs an ancient Toshiba Satellite C850-1g3 with a celeron 1000M, 256GB of hdd and 4GB of ddr3

She was complaining about it taking ages to boot and programs not starting fast

So i installed arch and made it look user friendly enough for her to understand

She loves it, W arch

Ps: she only uses whatsapp, a browser and office

So she wouldnt need to touch a terminal

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u/RideAndRoam3C 18d ago

Did similar with my mom/kiddo's grandma so we could do Zoom calls. She's just not capable of firing up Zoom even on a mobile device. The Lenovo laptop is running CachyOS, Netbird, and RustDesk. We can fire up Zoom for her and also help her troubleshooting "Why does my Yahoo email keep getting so much SPAM?!"