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  • I think the trick has to be that somebody who has a bit of technical skill sets the laptop up initially. I did this for my mom a while back, and once I set it up once, it just worked from there on. Non technical users tend to have a fairly small set of things they need to do like check email, browser the web, and play media. Once that’s working, they never need to change anything. In fact, they don’t want to change anything because they get used to the workflow, and they’re comfortable.

    It would be great if people set up community centres where people can bring their old laptops, and somebody switches them over to Linux for them.




























  • Yeah, I’d typically front an app with something like nginx and farm off stuff like rate limiting or tls handling to it instead of having to worry about it in the app itself. The general point in the article is solid though. I’ve started using this sort of heuristic to evaluate libraries as well. I first try to think of how I’d solve the problem conceptually, and then once I work through that and have a good mental model of what I want, I’ll look for libraries and try to find one that’s closest to the way I think about the problem.