Music composer, game designer and cybermancer.
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.
Sad that people with the knowledge won’t even consider the great opportunity it is to teach that knowledge to a family member.
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”.
I think it’s in Debian main repository so it should be fine :)
It won’t appears in many research because it’s a libre software. And libre softwares get almost no press coverage from medias, so no good SEO for search engines.
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 :
Once the install completed you will be able to access your windows data from mint.
So it could take some time to teach her.