Tonight I am about to install endless os for my non technical partner. Do you think that is a good idea? Would you do the same?
If she’s coming from Windows, Mint is a much better choice with Cinnamon
Has been using Ubuntu for a while but kept destroying it. I aim at a stable base with modern applications.
Maybe you should give a try to an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite.
They are very hard to break.
Thanks for your suggestions. Silverblue might be a good idea. I am more in the Debian based camp but maybe it is time for a change. I think it gets major updates as often as fedora “normal”. This might not be ideal for us though.
Maybe you should give a try to an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite.
Those are an immutable systems. Very hard to break.
So, basically the same Fedora system, but with different DEs, right? If so, this may be exactly what I’ve been looking for.
What does immutable mean with an OS? I’m not understanding how an OS can be unchangeable. Or is it talking only about the subsystem, because of Flatpak, where the userspace is mutable (with installations and files, etc), but the subsystem is protected from all unofficial change?
Then the distro doesn’t matter that much. You shouk go for either Snaps or Flatpaks for applications as they won’t break the system even if something catastrophic happens.
Personally I’d go for distros with great deal of support (Pop, Fedora and Mint) and put Flathub as the main source in the respective app stores. Smaller distros tend to have more issues that requires some troubleshooting at times.
Check how does she uses Ubuntu first though, if she’s using the Canonical’s additions to Gnome a lot, she’ll have a horrible time with vanilla Gnome as it’s pretty barebones, that’ll rule out any distro with vanilla Gnome such as Fedora. Trust me, you don’t want to be babysitting your partners computer.
Nice idea. I`d love to love nix but I think it is too involved for me. Maybe I have to try again but I need results tonight, so this might be for another time.
It does not require an internet connection to use!
It’s messed up that that’s a selling point.
Eh probably not. Linux Mint or Pop OS would be a better starter distro for someone from a non technical background.
I don’t know anthing about EndlessOS, but Zorin tends to be a good Windows substitute.
It’s worth a shot. Non-technical users are it’s target demographic.
I would pick something immutable like this. Non-technical users aren’t going to get under the hood and tinker, like many Linux users do.
Turns out she needs a bit of proprietary software (pixum for photo books) that I could not install on EndlessOS. So I had to change course and installed pop os. So far I am pleasantly suprised. Even though I thought I would not like it, their take on GNOME makes sense to me. Tiling is fun.
PopOS is currently developing their own spin on a immutable OS, but that’s still a long way from shipping to users. I’m curious, if other distros broke, why would it be different with current PopOS?
Did not know this. Immutable Ubuntu plus flatpack sounds awesome. Not sure what to think about their plans to fork cosmic from GNOME.
