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Hello Vincent,

07 Apr 22 15:15, you wrote to me:

 VC> Simple fix - Install your fav. Linux distro :)

My mother and I have actually been discussing that as of late.  The two 
programs she uses are Firefox and Thunderbird.  When I explained to her that I 
could move her FF and TB profiles over to a Linux install without any loss of 
productivity, she commented that she "saw no need to use Windows anymore".  
Her older but still very reliable HP commercial color laser printer is 
well-supported via HPLIP and CUPS.  Windows keeps breaking it.

We'll see where this goes.  Converting her computer from W10 to Devuan Linux 
is going to take some effort.

My dad will have to stay on Windows.  Due to physical disability, he uses 
Dragon Professionally Speaking for speech-to-text capability and there's no 
good alternative for that under Linux.

My mother is more "computer savvy" than my dad but my dad has tramautic brain 
injury from being hit head-on by a drunk driver at 70 MPH in 2003 so it is 
hard for him to learn and retain new skills anymore and even old skills can be 
very shaky at times.

 VC> Guessing it is, a local setting, does it offer boxes for user name and
 VC>  password at log in ?

It is a local setting but I can't figure out where it is being toggled on and 
off at.

-- Sean

... If you stand by the sea, it sounds like putting a shell to your ear.
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