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    [–] the_q@lemm.ee 43 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

    My 77 year old mother-in-law runs Pop cause of me and loves it.

    [–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 15 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

    My parents love Bazzite.

    Is Pop as good and generally user friendly for those less familiar with Linux? Never heard of Pop before!

    [–] j5906@feddit.org 11 points 2 weeks ago

    PopOS is great, the installation process is like 5minutes, with 4 minutes being the download and boot from USB. From there on you click "next" 5 times and are rebooting into a working system.

    To be absolutely honest, I had to do some googling and command line stuff to get my fingerprint reader in the laptop working but that was the only thing that needed any attention. But I never did a Windows install where I didnt have to configure at least 2-3 drivers, so I consider it a draw.

    From there one it is the typical stuff: You need one proprietary software? You have to figure it out for hours how to get it to work. You are fine with open source options? Go enjoy a blazing fast ad-free non intrusive non annoying OS. For me the trade of is worth it. Been using Linux since I was 14, if I could do it from my kids room with parents switching of WLAN after 22:00 you can do it too.

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