Goddammit, Teamviewer ended support for macOS 10.6, how the heck am I supposed to help my grandma figure out her scanner now

okay, Facetime works well enough to let me at least see the screen, oof

@noiob Good luck explaining what a right click is

@onf my grandma isn't stupid, just old

she actually played through all of the Myst games except the newest one

@onf also it's a Mac, it doesn't have a right click button by default

@onf all I can say is I don't think Windows is that bad, but I really appreciate not having to do Windows tech support for relatives

@onf what distro/de?

I've found debian stable/ XFCE to be a good combo, albeit for my little siblings who know what a right click is.

I spent quite a while playing around with XFCE's customization (like using whisker-menu instead of the default one or adding a dock-like launcher for my little brother who's used to macOS) but maintenance is a breeze, I just ssh in via my phone when I'm at my parents' and run the update thing.

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@onf only thing that can be annoying is driver troubles but that's more about it being an ancient laptop than Linux' fault

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