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Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won't break accidentally? The set up doesn't have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.

My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don't want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.

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[–] JASN_DE@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora Atomic desktops, specifically Kinoite with KDE6 works well for me, and is basically unbreakable due to the way it works.

[–] deadcream@sopuli.xyz 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fedora is a bit too eager to deliver new updates IMO, especially KDE. As much as I love KDE, their .0 releases have had serious bugs several times in a row now. It's always better to wait for .1 patch with Plasma. It may be hard for the user to break Kinoite, but it won't save them from bugs.

Fedora's mission have always been to push new stuff when it's "mostly ready" at the cost of inconveniencing of some users, so I wouldn't recommend it for non-tech-savvy people.

I know people say that it's 100% stable for them (as they do for Arch, Tumbleweed, Debian Sid, etc) but that's survirorship bias. As any bleeding edge distro, Fedora has its periods of stability that are broken by tumultuous transitions to the new and shiny tech (like it was with Pipewire, Wayland default, major DE upgrades, etc). During these times some people's setup will break and you don't know ahead of time if it will be yours.

[–] lilith267@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linux mint is a good, "click first" distro that won't break without root + will be easy for her to use. For something with a more modern desktop and more recent updates, Bazzite is really good at just working and (in my experience) has never broken

[–] Hozerkiller@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Bazzite might be what i go for the more i look at it. Thanks

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] commander@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Here's the bazzite attempt at viral marketing, everyone.

Remember when we saw it for MX Linux?

Be careful about what you install on your computers.

Edit: The incessant, vehement backlash against calling out shilling is always a telltale sign of shilling. Shills are not allowed to let people accuse them of shilling without going through their playbook of what to say next.

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean it's not perfect but what is?

I tried MX Linux for a while, it was okay. did I miss something?

[–] commander@lemmings.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never mentioned perfection.

I hope people reading this can start to recognize shilling when they see it.

[–] fenndev@leminal.space 0 points 1 year ago

"Someone mentions a distro they like" ≠ shilling. I use Bazzite and have been for months. Before that, used Nobara, EndeavourOS, and vanilla Fedora, along with a number of others I tried when I was distro-hopping. Wholeheartedly believe that Bazzite is currently the best generally-available Linux distro for gaming and is up there for general use. It's not perfect, but nothing is - it gets close for the use-cases I mentioned, though.