To my surprise, my Dad has been using Linux for over a year

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I went to visit my parents yesterday. I was helping my Dad assemble some speakers and after we completed he went to boot up his computer. I recognized the login screen immediately! Sure enough, he typed in his password and LXDE was displayed before my very eyes.

I was utterly blown away. He reminded me that it was I that installed it for him. The story is that he was complaining about his desktop having viruses and being generally slow about a year and a half ago, when I was visiting for Christmas. So I installed Lubuntu for him. I thought I had removed it the next day, due to his complaints or confusion but I guess I had not and he's been using it this whole time.

Before you get too excited. My dad was not opening up the terminal, installing new apps or doing essentially anything other than opening up chrome and browsing his favourite sites such as youtube & kijiji. But I almost wanted to cry when he told me that he's had almost no complaints and it works better than his Windows 7 install before. The one issue my mom pointed out is that their HP deskjet 1010 wasn't working, but I resolved the issue in 5 minutes for them.

I imagine he's just been accepting the GUI software center prompts to update the system because it was fully updated as I was whizzing around and inspecting in disbelief.