Nice Email

[Valtam]

I get emails every week from people from all over the world. Just thought I would share with you one of them of the type that I regularly get.

Hello Jerry,

Thank you for the information and for taking the time to reply to my email. I will try older versions of Linux Lite in this machine hoping to find one that will work.

I want to take the opportunity to thank you, your staff and the Linux Lite community for creating and maintaining this great piece of software.

As a hobby I help friends, family and people I know with their computers. Very often I have to work with machines that were built a long time ago with hardware that over the years have become obsolete and is no longer possible to upgrade the software inside these machines to their latest versions but that other than that are still in very good working condition. At this pace programmed obsolescence would inevitably force the owners of these computers to have to buy new ones. Fortunately thanks to your good work it is possible to breath new life into these machines by installing your OS on them.

For most of the people I know, switching to a “different” OS is a very daunting thing to do. The simplicity and ease of use of your software helps in the transition. I am no computer expert but I have managed to install your software successfully in many aged computers for the joy of their owners. Sometimes I assemble machines from pieces of old hardware that I get in second hand markets for little money and I install Linux Lite on them. When I have to provide maintenance to a computer, I leave one of these computers with Linux Lite as a replacement while I do the work, in the hope that by experiencing the new software will lead to new converts willing to adopt Linux Lite and then move on to use it in their own machines.

I also buy old laptops (netbooks) and install  Linux Lite on them and then give them as presents to people who cannot afford a computer or take them with me when I go on holidays to countries where computers are still expensive and leave them there, in the hands of people who would otherwise not have a chance to have access to computer technology. This is my small contribution to try to close the gap left behind by progress as we run to introduce new technology while the old is still usable.

Once again, thank you for doing what you do which in turn allows me do what I do to help spread the use of computer technology.

Cheers,

Marco Vargas

[Artim]

That's awesome!  I use Linux Lite on old, slow, unsupported WindowsXP machines for a couple of schools near me.  The result is not only blazing speed and nimble performance, but also delighted students and staff who can't just run out and buy a whole new computer on their own. 

Another bonus:  Some elderly folks at a nursing home have been able to use LL's super-simple intuitive interface to keep in touch with family and friends "from the good ol' days."  All I really do to modify it is make the fonts and panel icons bigger, and swap some of the more resource-hungry applications with lighter ones.  If their computer balks at a resource hog like Firefox, I choose a lightweight alternative like Midori (sometimes, if it doesn't crash constantly). 

Not bad for a boy who is still a little scared of computers, huh?  Anyway

THANK YOU

all over the place for an awesome OS.