• RedWeasel@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I have an elderly friend that I will probably need to migrate as 1 of their 2 computers doesn’t support win11. I am fully able to migrate them, but I really want it themed(Plasma6 probably ) to look as much like 10 as they a dealing with cognitive decline and I don’t want to force them to relearn using their computer.

    I need to start investigating, but I got over a year to do so. The other part is making sure the 2 pieces of proprietary software they use runs in wine. I expect both will, but need to check.

    This is obviously something that developers probably don’t think about as much as an accessibility issue in general.

    • MalachaiConstant@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      I was thinking about this the other day. I support some very, very technologically limited users and I wondered if anyone out there is working on a distro/DE that looks and feels just enough like windows to get them by

      I would never have considered this before they announced Recall. Now it feels like I’m waiting to see just how hard they push it