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Which DE for my parent's laptop (old Lenovo IdeaPad)? Wayland or X11?

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I chose Debian 12 as a solid and stable base. Which of these shipped DEs is the best for this particular laptop series and Windows 10 like user experience?

GNOME 43, KDE Plasma 5.27, LXDE 11, LXQt 1.2.0, MATE 1.26, Xfce 4.18

Don’t know the exact laptop model and year, but here are some specs: IdeaPad, only HDD, DVD drive, shipped with Win 8 or 10 (I think), unbearably slow on Win 10 currently

Use case: office, web, movies (not streaming), things for non-tech-savvy users

Personally, I’m using Arch btw with KDE Plasma 6 on Wayland, so I would prefer this over other DEs, but Debian still ships version 5. Has anyone experience with performance on an old Lenovo laptop with any of the listed environments?

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drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org
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Linux Mint Debian Edition. Very windows-like + automatic updates = ideal for people who don’t really want to have to learn anything new (assuming your parents are like mine in that respect).

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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Linux mint doesnt update automatically, does it? It warns about them, but you need to press “okay”.

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drhoopoe@lemmy.sdf.org
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You have to enable it, but once you do it can do them automatically.

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n2burns@lemmy.ca
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You can setup unattended-updates to handle most of those.

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Pantherina@feddit.de
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Yes that would do it. But I wonder if that would silence Mints update notices. These would be redundant and should be disabled/removed.

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