Can you give me a Linux smartphone?
I will promise to hate Google and apple
this post was submitted on 04 Sep 2025
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Graphene OS is the closest you can get to this type of experience on a phone I think. Feels like having a cell phone 20 years ago before everything was tracked.
there is such a thing as Postmarket OS. Don't know how well it flies, but it's a linux for smartphones
Listen up Linux evangelists. Here is how you get users on Linux:
YOU DO NOT TELL THEM IT'S FUCKING LINUX.
Don't talk about operating systems, M$ Winblows, open vs. closed source, security, privacy, STFU and deliver Linux.
I used to make "little old lady" laptops and PCs. "Oh! You know computers? Can you fix mine? I can't afford much."
Yes. And I'll do it for free.
Take it apart, dust it out, throw in whatever spare parts ya got laying around, install an SSD, see if that old CPU will fit, new heatsink grease, Load Linux Lite, get all the drivers working, hook it to their WIFI, show them how to get email and browse.
Done. STFU about Linux. Nobody cares but nerds. They don't know it isn't Windows, and they don't need to know.
Not one of those folks ever called me back to repair their machine.
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This is the way. "I don't want to learn another operating system!" - My mom, dealing with Windows 10 EOL. All she needs is LibreOffice set to look like Excel/Word, and FF.
Did she ever "learn" Windows?
I've been using Windows since 95 and I can't find shit in Windows.
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for people who do not care about OSs, yes. but if they care about OSs, or you believe they actually want to know about it, you tell them
remember, nothing is black and white!
The type of person that cares will bring it up when you talk about what they use their computer for.
yes, but not the kind of person that would care but doesn't even know the concept yet.
perhaps for that particular group⦠though i had a friend whose old af macbook air had stopped updating literally years ago, and he still used it because it still worked⦠but then apps slowly stopped working
i installed linux on it, and he was actually really keen to give linux itself a go, and it worked great for him!
i gave him an old macbook a little while after that, and heβs back on macos now, but he said heβd switch back in a heartbeat if there were problems (slowness, update compatibility, etc)
i guess the thing being heβs not really technical enough to care about the OS other than outcomes, but also was actually interested in linux itself to learn for the sake of itβ¦ heβs a lab tech, and vibe codes data manipulation tools, so not a lot of IT-related skills, but always interested in learning
This is what I do with my SOs mothers pc, she recently complained that the (15 yo) pc was slow to boot so I'm redoing it in the near future.
I got my family member to finally try Linux. They now don't want Windows 11 back and said how it is easier the workflow is. All I did was show them how to update and install and uninstall using the store and a few basic terminal commands.
How old were these family members? That is an important factor.
as a mint user, what basic terminal commands do they (and i guess i) need to know?
commands for your distro's package manager is a must i think. If you're a basic user with basic needs, i don't really thik you need anithing beside that.
why does grandma need to know package manager commands? just set it to auto update and it should work
i'd assumed, you've asked for yourself in the first place, so i answered in kind to my assumption.
Me when my 13yo daughter shows me how she can draw on her ipad on her mint box because she found, downloaded, and stood up weylus all by herself.
Thank you ! I've been looking for something like this
The school computers are probably using ChromeOS, which is arguably worse.
They all got issued some cheapo dell laptops, but abso windows ive seen them ha ha
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I'd much rather have to use windows than ~~shittier android~~ ChromeOS
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Linux fans: Teaching you all you need to know to survive in Russian politics.
user is not in the sudoers file
Mint is just so fucking great to get new users in, it's also what I install on the machines of the poor souls who are still trapped in Microsoft's hellscape and are open to the idea of trying another OS.
The Linux Mint devs are really doing awesome work.
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Schools run Windows?
These days it is all Chrome OS
I am eastern european and haven't seen a school computer running chrome os in my life.
god bless the old world, i'm yet to see chromeos in person
Back in my day my school used windows. Activated by the computers teacher from some bootleg cd, as god intended.
Somebody uses chromeos ?
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My wife has been using Linux in home as far as we started living together (aprox. 15y). Recently she moved from working as a chef in restaurants to doing it for a company and they gave her a Mac to deal with her corporate business (email, meetings and so on) and she hates it, she said that everything looks cute, but nothing works like she wants and cannot change anything.
MacOS is a full Unix distribution and is an odd mishmash of an OS that used to care about power users and a weird iOS based facade. You can actually do quite a few of the things in macOS that you can do in Linux you just have to know where to look, some things have been hidden from the Applications folder but can still be found using Spotlight for instance. MacOS even still has a native X11 implementation for what itβs worth.
I would still prefer Linux but given the choice I will take macOS over Windows every time.
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Linux mint killed my parents.
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