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Distro suggestions for grandparents?
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Thanks, and good idea on letting them check out the different DE's. Does Debian have multiple DE's ready to go, or do you need to install each one individually?
It does have live versions for several DEs (gnome, kde, xfce, probably a couple others). If you have a bunch of spare usb sticks you could flash each of them into one and swap between them
It's been a long time, but I do think you can install multiple with the installer and then switch between them at login.
Yes but in Debian this will install all the standard apps from all DEs, so you'll have multiple image viewers, PDF viewers, music players, etc. visible in all DEs, and if you click on a file it will prompt you which program to use.
It may also install sddm alongside gdm as display manager and I'm not sure how it handles that.