She doesn't like mice. She doesn't like touch screen. She can work with text, though, and she's fine with some light markup, because it's not much different than doing the same on paper: you make things bold, or slanted, or use larger letters, bullet points, etc.
Linking? Linking's even easier, because [[anchor][text]] is much more convenient than drawing a huge arrow, and work accross documents, too, while arrows are confined to a single page, usually.
Obligatory reference: A Linux Desktop for the family, by yours truly, October last year.
There's very little new my Mom will be learning. A couple of keybinds, and a tiny bit of Org markup. Everything else is just something I bend to her will.
My Mom isn't learning to use a new system. A new system learns to adapt to my Mom. And that's how computers should be.
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