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choosing a version of Linux for my mom
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this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2025
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I had first installed Mint on my Dad's laptop, but then switched to Fedora KDE after a while 'cause wayland has better security than x11, and then now running an atomic distro called 'Secureblue' (KDE) on it while disabling confinement of user namespaces for Flatpak applications. All this while, he didn't find any trouble switching over from one to another.
PS. I'd have stayed with Mint if Wayland worked on it.