If you are gonna have to be anyway, it may as well be one you can run bash scripts on over ssh
(not even a) hot take: if they think a Linux system is weird, they are not a real tech geek.
But yeah, that is why I only install extremely stable stuff. So that I am basically never asked for shit
If you are gonna have to be anyway, it may as well be one you can run bash scripts on over ssh
Yeah, I'm not sure what OP is on about or how they get away with it. I'd get phone calls for how to use outlook and MS word. I'm fortunate to have a fairly tech literate grandma, but she is old, which means set in her ways. She probably could use Linux, but she would not see the point in putting in the effort to switch habits.
I usually just mention it. I don't give to many details and before you know it they will need tech support.
That's a gatekeeper-y take. I tried Linux a few years back, so I guess I became a "real" tech geek a few years ago. Never mind the fact that I was 3/4 the way through a CS degree, I'd built my own computer, and was the go-to tech guy in my family. But nope, not yet a tech geek.