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People who have installed Linux on their parents computer, how did it go? Which distro do you recommend? Any tips? (lemmy.zip)
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There are always stories of people installing Linux on their parents computer to provide them a more secure and stable operating system, seems interesting to share experiences.

Edit: I'm assuming that parents are okay with the changes, or do not care. Obviously do not force anyone to switch OS if they don't want to.

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[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 7 points 5 months ago

Ubuntu on my nanny's PC. Windows was choking its 4GB of ram and now it boots in 3min instead of 15min. She is super happy with it because you can actually do stuff on it.

Anyway, made the mistake of choosing Ubuntu because I knew the installer offered a minimal Gnome installation (yes minimal Gnome XD) For the future I'll do Debian/XFCE. Btw at the time I installed that Ubuntu I was 3 Months into switching to Linux.

In the end its all good.

[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

3 minutes? Must be an old pc.

[-] 299792458ms@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Its actually less than 3, I was being generous. I would think it has to do more with Ubuntu more than the PC. Plus i think it does not have one of the newer SSD that boot faster.

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