"SO proof" distro
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I've heard enough horror stories of BTRFS to just use ext4
yeah, the file system tools still suck for btrfs
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Dude you might be paranoid....
Nah. I just wasn't born yesterday.
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Nah. I just wasn't born yesterday.
Any particular you're against it?
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Nah. I just wasn't born yesterday.
So you were born today then?
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Thinly-veiled bazzite shill thread
Why don't you try to be useful instead? Is there anything wrong with Bazzite? Are there other distros that are better suited for what OP needs?
Honestly I'm not expecting much from ya. Though, I hope you can surprise me.
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Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won't break accidentally? The set up doesn't have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.
My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don't want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.
Does she want this?
If so then just set her up exactly what you have so you can easily help when there’s a problem.
If not then get her the computer she actually wants.
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Does she want this?
If so then just set her up exactly what you have so you can easily help when there’s a problem.
If not then get her the computer she actually wants.
It's a no money and cant run windows 11 situation.
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I never mentioned perfection.
I hope people reading this can start to recognize shilling when they see it.
"Someone mentions a distro they like" ≠ shilling. I use Bazzite and have been for months. Before that, used Nobara, EndeavourOS, and vanilla Fedora, along with a number of others I tried when I was distro-hopping. Wholeheartedly believe that Bazzite is currently the best generally-available Linux distro for gaming and is up there for general use. It's not perfect, but nothing is - it gets close for the use-cases I mentioned, though.
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Any of them. Just don't give the root password.
Set up Tailscale and an SSH key for remote tech support
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It's a no money and cant run windows 11 situation.
Consider 0patch before you give up on windows. They do good work and it’s real affordable.
No matter what you do, in this circumstance it’s worth keeping that windows partition around.
I do think whatever you use is the right choice though.
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Set up Tailscale and an SSH key for remote tech support
Or just wireguard and ssh?
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I've heard enough horror stories of BTRFS to just use ext4
Don't worry: people just ignore the btrfs horror stories like they do the ceph ones. That makes it okay.
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I honestly had never heard of it till I posted this. To be fair there are a billion linux distros at this point.
I honestly was expecting everyone to say mint.
till
Plough? Cash-drawer?
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Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won't break accidentally? The set up doesn't have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.
My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don't want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.
I guess it depends what she does on her pc.
But ignoting that, Mint without sudo. Throw in flatpaks and appimages.
Immutable distros are probably fine too but in my experience they tend to be a bit fussy if you need to change something in the system config.
Ubuntu, always a solid choice for beginners but Gnome shell is a bigger change from windows conpared to Cinamon.
P.S. I have Mint on our TV PC and my SO handdles it without issues.
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Because ZFS exists.
ZFS gives me a real hardon
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Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won't break accidentally? The set up doesn't have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.
My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don't want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.
Pop all the way
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Zorin OS is trending
Zorin is a good shout, but it's definitely not "trending", it's been a staple recommendation for over 5 years now.
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Thinly-veiled bazzite shill thread
Explain how you can shill for a free product which makes no money?
I don't use Bazzite, but I'm glad to see immutable distros being mentioned as they're the only sensible option for OP's use-case
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Any of them. Just don't give the root password.
Might end up in dumb annoying situations like setting up wifi requiring root and such
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Here's the bazzite attempt at viral marketing, everyone.
Remember when we saw it for MX Linux?
Be careful about what you install on your computers.
You know the build scripts which turn Fedora Kinoite into Bazzite are all open on GitHub, right.....
