I watched her find her way through the system and launch her familiar applications with ease. The classic Zorin OS desktop is very much like her old Windows 7. I had to reveal that this is not Windows at all, but Linux, and explain why we all love Linux. When I showed Mom her new PC, she did ask why this new Windows looked different again.
(Tomasz Waraksa, CC BY-SA 4.0) Can Mom survive Linux?
What she didn't know is that she would become the crucial part of a year-long scientific experiment named: "Can Mom survive Linux?" Mom was happy when I declared to fix her problems once and for all. It surely wouldn't do harm to try it with her. I made "the move" five years ago and have never been happier. With nothing to lose, I decided to migrate her to Linux. And I'd be the one to clean this mess-every weekend. But with Windows 7 reaching end-of-life soon, I feared the worst: Without security updates, Mom's computer would soon become a member of countless bot networks, mining cryptocurrencies, mailing spam, and launching vicious DDOS attacks on the vital infrastructure of entire countries.
Why does everything look so different? Where is my app menu? What, this pile of tiles is now my app menu? Why is the computer so slow? Why does it restart daily for updates, just when I need to use it?! Why is something (she meant the hard drive) making noise all the time? What is it actually doing all the time?Īnd how would I know that without any ability to look into the source code? My life as Mom's Computer Admin quickly turned into hell with her desperate calls for help. Free online course: RHEL Technical Overview.Then one day, through deceit, threats, and obnoxious popups, Microsoft finally made her click that dreaded "UPGRADE TO WINDOWS 10" button. Until last year, she was using a Windows laptop, old but not too bad. Read the internets, send email, type text, browse and edit photos, play videos and music, call family and friends on Skype or Signal. Mom is a lovely lady in her late 60s-a real sweetheart.
Like most of us, I'm officially Mom's Computer Admin. A year has passed, so it's time for retrospection and conclusions. Linux can handle Mom and Dad just as well! The storyĪbout a year ago, I decided to migrate my mom to Linux. Recently, we watched Ingenuity fly over Mars, an amazing robo-copter driven by… Linux! It's yet more proof of how flexible and versatile this operating system can be.īut now, the really big news. Laptops on the International Space Station run on Linux. The Large Hadron Collider is powered by Linux.
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