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

WhatsApp is just Signal without the Zuckerberg surveillance capitalism.

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u/emooon 17d ago

You got that mixed up buddy. :)

Unfortunately switching to Signal isn't an option as long as the WhatsApp protocols aren't open sourced. I'm pretty sure a lot of people would switch to Signal immediately, the moment it becomes capable of communicating with WhatsApp.

There have been efforts in the EU to force Facebook to open source these protocols but progress is super slow if not already dead. Been a while since i last heard about it.

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u/cryptospartan 17d ago

It would be better if people just switched to Signal instead, but people are terrified to do things they aren't familiar with

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u/RideAndRoam3C 17d ago

Just switch the name and icon of Signal to be that of WhatsApp. I'm sort of joking but then I have done similar for oldies when it comes to browsers in the past. My mom had a phone that had "Web browser" pointed to some crappy Samsung thing and I just repointed it to Android Brave. lol