Tonight I am about to install endless os for my non technical partner. Do you think that is a good idea? Would you do the same?
Tonight I am about to install endless os for my non technical partner. Do you think that is a good idea? Would you do the same?
If she’s coming from Windows, Mint is a much better choice with Cinnamon
Has been using Ubuntu for a while but kept destroying it. I aim at a stable base with modern applications.
Maybe you should give a try to an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite.
They are very hard to break.
Thanks for your suggestions. Silverblue might be a good idea. I am more in the Debian based camp but maybe it is time for a change. I think it gets major updates as often as fedora “normal”. This might not be ideal for us though.
If you like Debian, then just wait for Vanilla OS. The next big release (a open beta should be out soon) will switch from Ubuntu to Debian. I will switch instantly if there’s a KDE variant.
Wow, that looks very promising. Will keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.
Isn’t Endless immutable?
Then the distro doesn’t matter that much. You shouk go for either Snaps or Flatpaks for applications as they won’t break the system even if something catastrophic happens.
Personally I’d go for distros with great deal of support (Pop, Fedora and Mint) and put Flathub as the main source in the respective app stores. Smaller distros tend to have more issues that requires some troubleshooting at times.
Check how does she uses Ubuntu first though, if she’s using the Canonical’s additions to Gnome a lot, she’ll have a horrible time with vanilla Gnome as it’s pretty barebones, that’ll rule out any distro with vanilla Gnome such as Fedora. Trust me, you don’t want to be babysitting your partners computer.
Ok, I’m normally against this, but this sounds like a job for nix.
Nice idea. I`d love to love nix but I think it is too involved for me. Maybe I have to try again but I need results tonight, so this might be for another time.
Yeah, it’s not hard, but definitely not my cup of tea.
But if you want something nearly impossible to break you can’t beat immutable.
Fedora silver…something works too.
I’ve had my girlfriend on Zorin for a couple years now. Just calling it out as another good one for Windows people, though agreed not as good as current Mint.