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I'm visiting my parents for the holidays and convinced them to let me switch them to Linux.

They use their computer for the typical basic stuff; email, YouTube, Word, Facebook, and occasionally printing/scanning.

I promised my mom that everything would look the same and work the same. I used Linux Mint and customized the theme to look like Windows 10. I even replaced the Mint "Start" button with the Windows logo.

So far they like it and everything runs great. Plus it's snappier now that Windows isn't hogging all the system resources.

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[–] z00s@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

@OP, can you advise what themes etc you used to make it look like windows 7?

I'm about to switch one of my parents over, I think that would make the transition easier.

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