On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 6:34 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com> 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.
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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).

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