So it could take some time to teach her.
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It isn't because he needs to be willing to teach in the first place. If a person don't want to teach autonomy to another, the debate ends here.
But to know if you want to take the time to teach someone, you have to consider the possibility in the first place not thinking 'impossible' then move along.
Also we can debate on how to teach a family member without being overwhelmed, because it is a real topic of discussion.
She might want to, who knows?
She wants privacy, maybe she's not afraid of learning new things to get it. It is possible.
You should setup a yunohost server for her.
But you should be upfront about being a teacher for her not being a helper.
For the others in the topic, yes teaching people to be autonomous with the digital is a lot of work (and a lot of phone calls), but it's also really rewarding for both you and "the student".
Indeed, see difference between libre software and open source software.
Yunohost.
Well I'd say just use popular hastags related to your posts and reply to other people.
I'm on Mastodon since 2017 and it will build slowly as you will get much more favs than direct replies anyway.
Why would you want to be discovered?
Depending on the answer a lot of things can be done IMO.
Default is garbage for me interface wise (weird app menu/panel made for touchpad not desktop), so I prefer Lubuntu or Xubuntu.
Kubuntu is... Well it's KDE.
Back up your data before hand.
You can use gparted on your mint live session to resize the windows partition to minimal size, leaving the biggest empty space possible. Leave 500mo to the windows partition as a safety net.
Then during the install process :
- choose manual install (not install on a full drive),
- create an ext4 partition for the system (30 to 50 go) with a "/" mount point. It's the system partition.
- create a "swap" partition (size = your computer ram x 2). It's the physical memory partition.
- last create an ext4 partition (all remaining space) with a "/home" mount point. It's the personal data partition.
Once the install completed you will be able to access your windows data from mint.
Maybe this: https://tournesol.app/ could be of some help ?