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Choosing a distro for a technophobe's computer
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TBH once Mint's up & running and all those updates / dependencies are sorted.out, I've not had a problem with it.
I'm supporting a couple of people that don't do updates, so it just stays static until I get there... when we arrive (ie for a weekend) I'll do a full backup whilst we're all catching up and then at some point I'll do a full update and make sure it's working again well before we leave.
Agree with the other point on enabling remote access - and also setup something (ie syncthing) to get their data somewhere else.