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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)
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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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[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 3 points 5 months ago

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

[-] Technoguyfication@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

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/

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 0 points 5 months ago

Fedora Atomic Desktops, many more "immutable" distros do

[-] lud@lemm.ee 1 points 5 months ago

Immutable distros aren't the norm though.

[-] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 months ago

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.

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