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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
I don't want to install anything on her machine other than the basics. Oh, and OpenOffice, because she can't afford to buy Office and the initlal trial ran out and she can't understand that ....
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The next question is Open Office or Libre Office.
OO was a project of Sun Microsystems. Oracle bought Sun, and OO's future got cloudy. Various folks were unhappy, and created a fork of the Open Office code thy called Libre Office, to be out from under Oracle's control.
Oracle finally got around to transferring Open Office to the Apache Foundation and no longer is involved, but meanwhile the damage was done and there are now two similar products based on the same code but beginning to diverge. Either will do.
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Actually, I probably did install Firefox. Cause that's what I'm most familiar with.
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So that's what she theoretically used before?
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I'm not expecting this to fix the internet issues. She needs to call her DSL provider, and she hasn't the time and doesn't care enough to do so. She never uses this machine, even though it was new 2 years ago. Now that she needs to look for a better job and submit resumes, she is visiting ME and using my mac and my internet. Because that's easier than getting her own internet to work. I told her to get hers fixed or cancel it to save the money, but I don't think she has even done THAT. Still, she is learning a teensy bit about desktops and browsers over on my Mac, which is good for her!
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What does she do for a living? If she finds herself needing to use her PC for job related stuff, her hands-off approach may change.
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Precisely. But she is wont-take-money dog care when I go on vacation, so she saves me a ton. So I put up with it.
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She hasn't asked for Windows 10; I'm just wondering if I should inflict her with it, while it is free. She hates Win8 too, so either way, she won't like it overly much.
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She will likely hate Win10 less when she actually has the use the PC, so I think I'd do it.
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Dennis