My grandma got along with Mint for Facebook browsing and KPatience.

If your mom is more into using real apps, plus the Windows UI, and you’re comfortable with some setup, I’d highly recommend Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Flatpak, with the Flatpak-Discover integration. That’ll allow her to use lightweight, stable apps from apt, or more recent, but larger apps from Flathub, and install it all herself through Discover. Honestly, there should be a distro for that.

I’d be using that myself if it weren’t for some very specific software I need from the AUR.

In case anyone wants to yap about why niri is better than tiling wms, I’m interested in reading it.

Free as in “you’re free to use the system, and tell it what to do”, not only as in “you can use it for free”.

If the only point for Linux was it being available for free, then just install Windows, open PowerShell and irm https://get.activated.win/ | iex

It’s better than everything being exclusive to Windows, but I’d much rather everything just ran natively on Linux…

Arch or EndeavourOS (Arch for babies) should give you the best support for any new hardware.

Remember when Google’s motto was “Don’t be evil”?

Everyone said that about Wayland a decade ago…

Users move on from Windows because of old hardware compatibility, pick an easy to use distro, like Fedora. Fedora drops old hardware compatibility…

It’s their second attempt in under a month. Red Hat needs to sit the fuck down.

Never enough alternatives

new installs and upgrades could sometimes take more than a day

Laughs in Windows…

All I know is they took down the ones by LTT and Jeff Geerling, I can only assume it was due to the larger audience those two attracted. Now imagine PewDiePie…

Download the video before YouTube takes it down. I want to see that site flooded with reuploads if they do.

Yeah, I love to see people being called “racist” over not liking corporate facades, or “neo nazi” over referencing a clown. Always very productive.

There’s a simple solution to this: if Red Hat doesn’t like the guy or his code, don’t fucking use it. They’re the ones who banned him from Xorg and reverted his changes.

Actually, why do I expect a corpo to be morally or ideologically consistent? Silly me…

Not even an apology to Enrico first… Fucking Red Rats