I think it is getting easy enough with Ubuntu that it wouldn't be much of a struggle. I used to have a lot of family drama around this. Every time my uncle came back to the grandparents for Christmas he would have to fix their computers, which involved huge amount of virus, toolbar, and bloat removal. He got fed up with spending several days of his Christmas vacation on this and just installed Ubuntu 10.04 since most of what they were doing was just emails and web browsing. There was a lot of struggle at first, and windows was reinstalled. But tried a few years later it stuck and there wasn't much issue after that. Though, I think he still had to do some tech support here or there.
I feel like it'd be easier with older people. Grandparents aren't going to try to fuck with settings unless spam/popups put it in their face. Boomers would try to fix whatever irritates them and just make it worse.
I think it is getting easy enough with Ubuntu that it wouldn't be much of a struggle. I used to have a lot of family drama around this. Every time my uncle came back to the grandparents for Christmas he would have to fix their computers, which involved huge amount of virus, toolbar, and bloat removal. He got fed up with spending several days of his Christmas vacation on this and just installed Ubuntu 10.04 since most of what they were doing was just emails and web browsing. There was a lot of struggle at first, and windows was reinstalled. But tried a few years later it stuck and there wasn't much issue after that. Though, I think he still had to do some tech support here or there.
I feel like it'd be easier with older people. Grandparents aren't going to try to fuck with settings unless spam/popups put it in their face. Boomers would try to fix whatever irritates them and just make it worse.