How about a Chromebook?
Cheap, keeps itself up to date, fully cloud based.
It wouldn't tick the Lightroom box but it does the internet based stuff extremely well with low maintenance.
Cheap, keeps itself up to date, fully cloud based.
It wouldn't tick the Lightroom box but it does the internet based stuff extremely well with low maintenance.
She didn't realize that the password to log in to your computer was the sync'd to her Google password. So she would type some random password 5 times, until the Chromebook said "use your Google password to reset your Chromebook password", and would then log in with that. Every single time.
Some website managed to convince her to switch to developer mode to install a non-web-store extension that overwrites the new tab page and search functionality with ads. Chrome is a little more aggressive about not letting you change the New Tab page these days, asking you occasionally if you still want the extension to control it (even for the new tab page I use, an extension from Google).
But despite that, she got a lot out of the computer, so overall it worked quite well. And we fixed those two issues, so I don't think there are any problems now.
I'm not even mad, I'm honestly impressed both that your mom went to such lengths and that a website managed to convince a layperson to do such a thing.
I assume this wasn't a device where she had to open the case and short out some jumpers to enable Developer Mode? =)
I had to create my own "extension" and load it up in developer mode to get the exact functionality I wanted (an empty page).
I've been using https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jonikckfpolfcdcgdf... (on standard Linux) for ages myself.
Lightroom to me means the user is in the more advanced category. I'm routinely amazed at what Google photos does without any input (tagging, grouping, enhancing), and if I want to tweak pics Snapseed works really well. The only time I startup LR now is if I pull the DSLR out.
Biggest word of warning though is that Google are totally happy to change things with no warning or how or why, which can be very confusing.
For example, they stopped a direct route to import photos from an SD card or alike to google photos. No automated replacement workflow.