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My mom needs your help.
| reinstall clean windows for her with all doc software she uses. Also fast browser like Firefox or something. It should be good.
| On her personal private device I would install a GNU/Linux Distro for her.
>She just browses the internet
Firefox
>writes Word documents
LibreOffice
>reviews tests of her pupils with a specific software
If this software really is mandatory to do her job, then her employer has to provide it and not expect her running it on her personal, private device depending on a unfree OS.
There also may be free and open source alternatives for her purpose. Maybe have a look on edubuntu.
| >She is an old g/u/rl.
My grandma (80+) uses xubuntu for over 10 years now. All she needs is the file-manager the web browser and the mail client. She doesn't even use any office program. She also installs security updates on her own, but I doubt she really knows what it means.
| >>392952
To be fair, I admit I had to help her making an lts-distro upgrade once. Maybe the next one 'll come in 2-3 years.
| tronscript?
| I'm gonna be honest I'm not sure what you were expecting when asking /tech/ for help and saying you needed windows
| >>392927
Yeah I agree, clean reinstall, backup the important shit, get rid of all of the bloat.
Not much you can really do other than making sure there isn't shit on there slowing it down.
| >>392949
She is a teacher, contracted by the state. The state doesn't care, teachers get paid shit and she doesn't want to unionize.
The software is to correct grammar for a certain English teaching book.
So I don't think that there is an open source version :/ nor that the state will provide her with a new PC.
>>392965
What would be the benefits to a new clean install of Windows?
>>393759
Any Idea u have, cause I'm thinking the same
>>392942 >>393829
Ayy seems like the best way
| Thanks for all the answers @all <3
| >>393838 I'm>>d7d9ac you could look into getting an SSD if the computer doesn't have one when you go about reinstalling, it shouldn't be that hard to install and will should make everything load faster I know you asked for software but I'm not really sure about windows software :p
| >>393838
>She is a teacher, contracted by the state. The state doesn't care, teachers get paid shit
I'm a teacher too. And I did not only managed to resist the offensive proprietary software lobby, I also lobbied for free software myself. On our school we have Ubuntu now maintained by a full-time linux admin.
>she doesn't want to unionize.
I'm an unionist. If your mom doesn't fight she has to pay. That's how live is.
Why should random ppl support a proprietary platforms for free?
| use grammarly
it's an extention which corrects your words and plus it can make your sentence basic to understand easily via providing another option
| >>392927
Windows 7 Pro, disable unneeded services (there are guides online), enable classic windows theme, adjust visual effect for the best performance.
It won't be as fast of lightweight as linux, but it's as good as you can get if your mum REALLY needs Windows software.
| >>394037
Oh shit I'm stupid, good idea!
>>394227
Ayy I agree. But did you ever try to convince your stubborn parents to do something?
They realise they already have minimum 3/4 of their life lived. So they don't care about your stuff, they be like nah- I ain't have no time for that.
Also we only have some chauvinist-(I never use that word), petite bourgeois, and Christian conservative unions.
So I get her. We kinda fucked.
| >>394257
Ayy is it easy to use for a PC noob?
>>394518
I thought windows 10 is faster tho?
@all
Thoughts on Wine?
I have no idea if her program would work with wine but I think it's worth a try tbh
| >>394584 wine is great but likely requires some fiddling to get working
Personally I think it's a fun project but I'm not sure I'd recommend it when you need stuff to *just work*
>>d7d9ac btw
| >>394584
>I thought windows 10 is faster tho?
compared to tweaked 7 with classic theme Windows 10 is slow as old balls
| >>394641
clean install win 7, then use the install gentoo wiki to clean it up and speed up performance. That makes windows 7 the best and fastest windows I've ever used.
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| She has a slow as fuck PC. 2GB-4GB ram and very old. She has some cracked windows 7 version on it.
But she needs windows because of specific software she need to use for work.
She is an old g/u/rl.
Do you got any software tips on how I could make her life easier and her PC faster?
She just browses the internet, writes Word documents and reviews tests of her pupils with a specific software.