An uncounted Linux user

The Linux Counter Project tries to estimate the number of Linux users world wide. It invites all kinds of linux users to register:

You own a linux box or android phone? You are the owner of
a big server farm? You have some raspberry pis at home or
an old laptop with linux on it?  Get counted as a linux
user and register your linux machines now!

The most recent Linux user I know is, unfortunately, not registered with the Linux Counter Project. This invitation would mean nothing to her: some of its questions she would find unintelligible. She can more easily recall how she learned of the bombing of Pearl Harbor than she can remember when to left click and when to right click. She is also my mother.

For what its worth, her distro of choice is Elementary OS. She is thrilled with a new Zini desktop, an Intel NUC kit purchased fully configured and tested from the extremely helpful people at [Zareason] (http://zareason.com/shop/home.php). She is delighted that she’s no longer prodded to upgrade to Windows 10, and that she does not have to worry whether the baffling security services from Norton (or maybe it’s McAfee) are up to date. Everything she routinely does with her computer is available from a dock that never disappears. The user interface is beautiful.

She is amazed that her operating system started as a project developed by students and hobbyists in the early ‘90’s. She finds it hard to believe that its free licensing has allowed countless geeks to play with, contribute to and fork their own versions of Linux. She can’t quite fathom the fact that the same core OS she now uses to email her grandchildren, play Free Cell, and work on book manuscripts runs most of the world’s supercomputers, and all of the world’s Android phones.

Neither can I.