My 70 year old mother has been using Linux on the desktop for the past 21 years
It&#x27;s a little ironic, but I find Linux to be perfect for two groups of people: the nearly computer illiterate, and coders. It&#x27;s all the people in between where it struggles.<p>Yes, if you need your computer to check email and visit websites, and maybe deal with digital photos and do a little light word processing, Linux is rock solid stable and more than up to the task. I can see my own mother being just fine with it for those purposes.<p>Conversely, if you need to roll some scientific HPC code, it&#x27;s the preferred solution.<p>But God help you if you need to do multimedia desktop publishing or do Photoshop-level editing of photos or (in my case) do anything requiring a Common Access Card.