On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Michael Havens wrote: > > > On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 5:18 PM, Joseph Sinclair < > plug-discussion@stcaz.net> wrote: >> >> >> My recommendation (lacking more information): >> Check the hardware, if it's reasonably recent then Mate or Cinnamon is >> fine, if it's really old or slow (older than 2010, or slower than a 2010 >> AMD A4 APU), then something with LXDE (e.g. lubuntu) might work better, but >> there are some tradeoffs for the lighter desktop. >> > > As far as this is concerned.... last year I put Linux Mint Debian Edition > on my brother's xp computer and it ran beautifully. > -- > :-)~MIKE~(-: > If he doesn't want to manually update the computer write a cron job that will run in the background everyday at noon or so (when everyone is at lunch). -- :-)~MIKE~(-: