[conspire] Installing Linux on Elise Scher's Chromebook

[Elise Scher]

I felt good enough to walk the few blocks to work.
I will update you all later.

Thank you,
Elise

On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 2:46 AM Elise Scher <elise.scher01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think I have played around with Mint a bit in the past.
> Husband Robert says he has thumb drives.
> Now I would need to pick a distro and download it to a thumb drive.
> But I can’t do that on my old MacBook Air, which is the computer I use the
> most. Well actually I use my old and cheapest you could buy new iPhone the
> most.
> My husband has at least 3 desktops running windows in his tax business.
> One or two for him. One for each of his accounting clerks, two ladies who
> have worked with him for years.
> I do have random laptops around that just sit there most of the time. One
> has a bad hinge and is missing a key or two.
> I was issued a MacBook Pro to use at summer school. I will return it
> Friday afternoon when summer school ends.
> I read district email on it and play YouTube videos for the students, like
> about the days of the week.
> We are working on verbal and written fluency.
> All the students have IEPs.
>
> Elise
>
> On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 2:31 AM Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
>> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt at troubleshooters.com):
>>
>> > The preceding philosophy of not caring about your UI's (user
>> > interface's) innards is a luxury that's getting more and more costly
>> > for two reasons:
>> >
>> > 1) Caustic complexity
>> >
>> > 2) Summary and arbitrary UI change, and not always for the better
>>
>> Sy, listen to my friend Steve, on this.  He's a first-class thinker, and
>> articulated matters I didn't even get to, in a logical and lucid way.
>>
>> (But, as a GoLUG volunteer par excellence, you probably have seen this
>> for yourself.)
>>
>> And sure, Lubuntu's a very defensible and sane choice for newcomer
>> desktop users -- with exactly the caveats that Steve so neatly and
>> efficiently summarised.
>>
>>
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