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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

yeah, installing and configuring linux for other people seems to be getting more and more popular these days. My dad now runs linux on an older thinkpad, he likes it, doesn't ask for login or any weird shenanigans, just does spreadsheets pretty much exclusively. Works great.

It's a shame how annoying most modern operating systems are these days.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

What's a good parent distro in your opinion? I've been eyeing Mint since that's how I started

[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

personally i'm a fan of the non-based distros, or root distros, arch and debian, both are pretty good, debian has really impressed me with it's reliability and stability so far. Though it's a bit old in terms of software so that's unfortunate. Arch is nice because it's bleeding edge, so there are always thing ready for you to be messing with, and it's minimal enough that it mostly gets out of your way, and lets you do what you want, which is nice.

I've heard that people really like nixos, if you have the mental capacity to deal with it's learning curve that is. Otherwise i know some people like fedora, though it's a bit too spicy for me personally, comes out of the box with basically everything pre configured, i'm just not a huge fan of that.

Mint is really nice if you just need a "works" distro. Ubuntu is still pretty good? Though snaps and what not are a bit annoying. Outside of that i'm not super familiar with anything else.

[–] grrgyle@slrpnk.net 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah I like the idea of an "starter" distros for parents, but then rolling packages would probably be easier for when I need to do tech support

rolling distros are a bit of a pain from time to time, notably if you get a broken package, although i hear fedora is really good in terms of being updated, and also stable, so maybe that's the ticket. Personally i don't mind things being out of date, since most of the stuff i host is either externally installed, or stable enough its not going to get significant feature updates anyway.