Hello there. Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a Linux distro for grandparents? They are over 70 years old, with an old HP desktop and laptop running Windows 10. All they need is a Web browser, so no need for special software or wine to run Windows programs. Would preferably like something that is low maintenance so I don’t have to be constant tech support for them (apart from the initial install and setup). Thanks for any suggestions.

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I’m so confused now as I’m trying to understand why you answered that way 😅.

But, if I understood you correctly, you didn’t refer to Silverblue and Kinoite as immutable, because it is possible to apply changes to them and these changes will even stick through reboots etc. Hence, you don’t deny that some parts are (in fact) deniable, but find that Atomic simply better describes what these distros actually do. And thus are better suited to set up the right expectations.

But, allow me to ask the following question then; do you think NixOS is immutable?

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Sorry for the confusion 😅 I don’t have any experience with NixOS apart from memes here in Lemmy. So… maybe?

Yes, I love atomic distros and I’m glad the term was changed.

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😂. No worries fam.

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