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Distro suggestions for grandparents? (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Hello there. Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a Linux distro for grandparents? They are over 70 years old, with an old HP desktop and laptop running Windows 10. All they need is a Web browser, so no need for special software or wine to run Windows programs. Would preferably like something that is low maintenance so I don't have to be constant tech support for them (apart from the initial install and setup). Thanks for any suggestions.

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[–] yala@discuss.online 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

So, you referred to immutable in the absolute sense? If not, would you be so kind to mention distros/systems that you actually refer to as immutable?

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I never needed it. I know from my school days that windows supports that use case. You get a full system and can do with it as you please but on reboot you get a completely fresh file system. The only thing that persisted were the user profiles that roamed through active directory. Seemingly there was no way of tampering with the file system, that would persist a reboot. And as school kids we tried hard 😅

I would be surprised if Linux didn't have utilities for that, that were better designed and safer - but again, not my expertise.

[–] yala@discuss.online 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I'm so confused now as I'm trying to understand why you answered that way 😅.

But, if I understood you correctly, you didn't refer to Silverblue and Kinoite as immutable, because it is possible to apply changes to them and these changes will even stick through reboots etc. Hence, you don't deny that some parts are (in fact) deniable, but find that Atomic simply better describes what these distros actually do. And thus are better suited to set up the right expectations.

But, allow me to ask the following question then; do you think NixOS is immutable?

[–] Lichtblitz@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sorry for the confusion 😅 I don't have any experience with NixOS apart from memes here in Lemmy. So... maybe?

Yes, I love atomic distros and I'm glad the term was changed.

[–] yala@discuss.online 1 points 5 months ago

😂. No worries fam.