"SO proof" distro
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So you were born today then?
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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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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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It's a no money and cant run windows 11 situation.
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"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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Set up Tailscale and an SSH key for remote tech support
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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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Or just wireguard and ssh?
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Don't worry: people just ignore the btrfs horror stories like they do the ceph ones. That makes it okay.
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till
Plough? Cash-drawer?
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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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ZFS gives me a real hardon
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Pop all the way
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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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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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Might end up in dumb annoying situations like setting up wifi requiring root and such
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You know the build scripts which turn Fedora Kinoite into Bazzite are all open on GitHub, right.....
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That is not a thing in userspace. No idea what you're even alluding to here.
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maybe not for a few months since they're gonna be launching COSMIC this year, which will likely be buggier than usual for a bit.
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Aurora gets a vote from me. I set it up for my technically repulsive father, and he gets on just fine with it.
