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People who have installed Linux on their parents computer, how did it go? Which distro do you recommend? Any tips? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are always stories of people installing Linux on their parents computer to provide them a more secure and stable operating system, seems interesting to share experiences.

Edit: I'm assuming that parents are okay with the changes, or do not care. Obviously do not force anyone to switch OS if they don't want to.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mint does not automatically install updates so people will ignore them. It for me also had a broken updater.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t know of many distros that enable automatic updates out of the box, you usually have to enable it after installing.

You can do that in Mint too: https://linuxhint.com/configure-updates-automatically-linux-mint/

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Fedora Atomic Desktops, many more "immutable" distros do

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Immutable distros aren't the norm though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Didnt say that. I just said "Linux mint does not auto update so people will ignore it".

It is useful that it can be enabled. But keep that in mind, I know people that ignore updates if they arent forced to.