It reminds me Silicon Valley (S03E09) when they introduced "Pipy (or Piedpy?)" to help the user through their UI which user is too dumb to use..
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My Parents (55) share a laptop at home (about 1 year now), installed Fedora (default GNOME) - never got a call.
My Youger Brother (18, finishing High-School this year) uses Ubuntu, for 4 years I think, I've convinced him that he could still play games there if wanted.. I get calls from him only when he wants to run some game that needs some advanced Wine tweaking and it involves command like (otherwise he is just using Play On Linux I think or whatever - I just don't game).
None of them is computer savvy or computer literate...
They all use different major Linux DE.. And they all seem to just be fine!
My Wife (27) currently uses Elementary OS (With Pantheon DE, which is not a major DE as we call them) - she's also nor computer literate nor savvy, and also using the Linux just fine!
The only problem I see, which rises from my wifes experience, there is no simple Paint alternative, were you'd have very basic options (cropping, rotating and maybe some brush/text) with a decent UI to make changes to a photo/image.. Same goes for easy PDF editing, but I already made her master Inkscape, but still - something easier and more straightforward would be awesome.
So the lack of software is still true for linux in 2016 in certain areas. I could convert a lot of audio/video editing people to linux, but there is just not enough professional grade software for them on linux..
In the end - apparently average Joe can use Linux today for browsing internet, viewing pdfs and doing Libre Office stuff just as well as on any other operating system (Windows, OS X)..
Though pricey, but seems neat idea and seems sturdy
'Kipplr's name is inspired by Philip K. Dick's novel "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" and by the concept of "Kipple"'.
At least I'd like this feature..
[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/11/19/promoting-choice-an...
have you ever heard of Epiphany[1] ? They claim to achieve 70 GFLOPS/WATT. Also the processor seems to be fairly fast and they manage to put 4096 cores on a chip. Though no activity in recent time. Maybe you could find some collaboration points with them..
[1] http://www.adapteva.com/epiphany-multicore-intellectual-prop...
The best way to use it - set-up your personal cloud. Or create a tor exit node / relay. Or host a linux repository mirror. Endless possibilities actually.
If using over WiFi the only downside is that in order to use all this speed you have to use ac capable router and of course - devices. I'd buy a router if I'd have devices which would utilise ac standard.
Although you can always use wired..
Though it has it's rough edges, but after using it, for a year, I think, It's awesome. Dragdis[0] actually solves a lot of bookmarking problems. And they have mobile app coming, which is really nice to use (in closed beta now). And the fact that you can bookmark just about anything you wan't. Not just a page, but for example a specific fragment of code/text/video/etc. and the link will be associated automatically. And when searching or browsing through your collection, your "dragged" info appears first rather than link. See for yourself [0].
[0] - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dragdis/fiekimdgbp...
1 year 100% or 2 years: 52 weeks 70% and 52 weeks 40% (either mother or father can take it or take the leave in shifts)
And you could even do Like this:
1 Year Mother 100 %, next Year Father 100 % - awesome, right?