OT: suggested Linus distro for the in-laws (Boaz Bezborodko)

[Aldridge, Inc.]

I absolutely love Linux Mint. Specifically 14, Cinnamon Edition. 
However, now I would install Linux Mint 17, a long term release which 
will be supported until 2019.

I buy off-lease Dell or HP boxes of the XP or Win7 era from 
computer-show.com. I set the first one up the way I want, and simply 
clone it over and over using clonezilla, onto 80 or 120 GB SSD drives.

We own numerous restaurants, and use it for all of the manager's office 
desktops, where it runs flawlessly for their email, browser, Virtual box 
for a couple of small windows programs we need, gnome terminal for their 
filePro sessions back to my office server (not Mint).

Presently I'm writing this email via Thunderbird on my home laptop 
running Mint 14. I have it on my netbook for when I travel, I've 
installed it for friends. My bet is your in-laws would be very happy 
with it.

-- 
Tom Aldridge
Aldridge, Inc.
1661 N Water St, Suite 205
Milwaukee, WI 53202
o (414) 271-5050 x103


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> Message: 1 Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:44:07 -0400 From: Boaz
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> This is OT, but this list has the largest group of knowledgeable
> Linux users that I know and trust.
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> My in-laws have an 7-year-old computer running Windows XP and I
> wanted to upgrade it to something that will be updated regularly.
> They only use it for email, browser, and OpenOffice.  Windows 8 seems
> excessively complex and I don't know what it will do to their
> machine's performance so I was thinking of putting on a Linux distro
> for them.
>
> Any suggestions on something that is easy to use?
>
> Thanks in advance, Boaz
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