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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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[-] MonkderDritte@feddit.de 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The PC i gave my dad on birthday to replace his 10-year cheapo Medion pc with random bluescreens on boot.

Had initially a bit of trouble to get his work software running in wine, with integrated TeamViewer for support and all. But since then it's smooth sailing, he thought it was the new Windows for the first two years (Materia theme on XFCE).

Motivation was that Debian stable and unattended upgrades with occasional support for linux-vs-Windows things is less trouble (for me) than fighting an OS working against you long-term.

He did manage to have xfce-panels disappear once though.

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