<p>We had an event last night at a low income housing community here in Olympia. We brought some Nixbooks, gave them away and showed people how to use them. </p><p>These people are NOT technical and still all said that Nixbook was far easier to use than any other computer they had used in the past.</p><p>All these laptops were headed for the scrapyard, but now thanks to Linux are out there changing peoples lives. :)</p><p><a href="/tags/linux/" rel="tag">#linux</a> <a href="/tags/nixbook/" rel="tag">#nixbook</a> <a href="/tags/recycling/" rel="tag">#recycling</a> <a href="/tags/ewaste/" rel="tag">#ewaste</a></p>
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<p>I yanked <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/fosstodon.org/manjaro.png" class="emoji" alt=":manjaro:" title=":manjaro:"> <a href="/tags/manjaro/" rel="tag">#Manjaro</a> off of my mother's laptop and replaced it with a nicely customized <img src="https://neodb.social/media/emoji/fosstodon.org/nixos.png" class="emoji" alt=":nixos:" title=":nixos:"> <a href="/tags/nixos/" rel="tag">#NixOS</a>. </p><p>She now has a button to pull config updates from my <a href="/tags/homelab/" rel="tag">#homelab</a> and build it (also done regularly in the background). Old versions stay selectable at boot.</p><p>When she has a problem, there's shortcuts for <a href="/tags/rustdesk/" rel="tag">#RustDesk</a> and ad-hoc reverse <a href="/tags/ssh/" rel="tag">#SSH</a> tunnels.</p><p>I can test everything in a VM, then add changes, she'll pick it up eventually or right away.</p><p>Loosely inspired by <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>codemonkeymike</span></a></span>'s <a href="/tags/nixbook/" rel="tag">#nixbook</a>.</p>
