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My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can't use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, "This is the app store. Everything you'll ever need is here, and if you can't find something just tell me and I'll add it there". I also set up bottles telling him "Your non-steam games are here". He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS...

The tech support questions and stuff like "Can you install this for me?" or "Is this a virus?" dropped to zero. He only asks me things like "What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux" once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is "like iOS" and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me "Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora". He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I still maintained that Linus fucked up those Linux videos on purpose. Not sure why but for a guy in the tech industry he really played dumb.

Really pissed me off. What has he got against Linux?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do you think I would have a similar experience if I got my 70 year old mother to install Linux? She's on the other side of the country, but she's always asking me questions about Windows 11 and breaking things. I have never even used Windows 11, so my capacity to help her isn't great, especially since we haven't been able to get Remote Desktop working since she switched from 10 to 11.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

My wife is bad with tech and was frustrated with Windows. i set her up with linux and GNOME. Its a simple interface. Settings are all in one place like a phone. Files, Photos in the overview tray. No more frustration with "what is Windows doing now?" and No more "why is this so slow"

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You did IT! Amazing!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

"Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora".

Because nerdy terminal shit is cool.

explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

😂

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Su Linux is most likely the answer to lering younger people to use computers fedora is especially good becouse it has a nice package manager (dnf) that is easy to understand

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I love Fedora. It was my OS of preference 20y ago. Now I am old and use Debian. Arch was a very shortlived adventure in a transitional period that I felt tired of keep breaking all my OSs out of boredom.

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

Hadn't heard of bottles before. Is it any different than Lutris?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Not really, but they are alternatives to each other. Bottles can also be configured to run "normal" applications alongside possible games and stuff, while Lutris has more a "gaming" UI vibes (but you can run everything you want on both of them really) and additionally provides some integrations for other emulators. I think it comes down to personal tastes at the end of the day, both of them under the hood use wine/proton and apply settings to it before running the application

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Haha nice work! Reminds me of when I got my little brother his first computer (a Raspberry Pi setup)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you add Flathub or rpmfusion? the store without those things is kinda barren

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Put my sibling on ubuntu and all they ever do is watch tv shows and stuff in the browser.

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