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[-] mat@linux.community 1 points 5 hours ago

Good point.. I tend to give family members Flatpak-based distros like Fedora for the nice app store experience, but I guess if you can get past the scaryness of test editing and rebuilding with a console, NixOS does come with the benefit of having waaaay more packages and much easier rollback. My poor father trying to run nvidia drivers on Fedora Kinoite, who has to rebuild the kernel for every package install...

[-] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 28 minutes ago

For somebody that can install software from a store fedora or Zorin or Mint would be solid suggestions.

For your dad you could try OpenSUSE, it has nvidia hosted repos for Nvidia with the GUI package updater, but I think bazzite has an nVidia spin doesn't it?

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