Interestingly, over the last year I’ve had a few opportunities to help some people out with computer problems. With the latest one, I installed UbuntuMATE as a second boot option and told him if he ever has problems with Windows 7 to boot into the UM install until he could get it to me to fix Windows. At this point I plan to ask anyone I help if they’d be okay trying that and if they agree it will be UbuntuMATE that I use from now on!
Sounds like a good idea. Great way to get them to stay in Mate…if they use it every time Windows has a problem, they should be using it about 80% of the time.
My mother gets lost easily when taken out of her confort zone on a computer (understand: something else than the Windows Vista or 7 experience) so she does not use the laptop she bought lastly simply because it has Windows 8 (even though I tweaked it to get back the classic start menu)… Well I do not blame her too much because even for me Windows 8 is such a mess I do not understand anything about its logic if there is any.
As much as I love Ubuntu MATE for my own use, for these kind of Windows users, not very computer literate and highly resistant to change, I think Zorin OS is better suited to convert them smoothly to Linux.
But if your users are happy with Ubuntu MATE, by all means you did well!
