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My little brother loves the dualboot setup I installed for him. He says "It's like iOS" (lemmy.world)

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My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can't use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, "This is the app store. Everything you'll ever need is here, and if you can't find something just tell me and I'll add it there". I also set up bottles telling him "Your non-steam games are here". He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS...

The tech support questions and stuff like "Can you install this for me?" or "Is this a virus?" dropped to zero. He only asks me things like "What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux" once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is "like iOS" and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me "Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora". He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

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[-] privsecfoss@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I have used Linux for a while and transitioned the wife and kids to Linux Mint a couple years ago.

They know it is different than Windows but never miss anything as the alternatives are as good or better. The kids are used to mobile and tablets so know of app store and so on. The only downside is getting some games their friends play working, like Roblox. But for the most part alternatives like Minetest are fine (better).

The upside is IMHO massive in terms of privacy, security, user friendless and sysadm stuff.

It just works and we're happy with it!

[-] TrivialBetaState@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

I love Fedora. It was my OS of preference 20y ago. Now I am old and use Debian. Arch was a very shortlived adventure in a transitional period that I felt tired of keep breaking all my OSs out of boredom.

[-] init@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

"Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora".

Because nerdy terminal shit is cool.

explaining to me why Fedora better than my "nerd OS"

😂

[-] 520@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

Haha nice work! Reminds me of when I got my little brother his first computer (a Raspberry Pi setup)

[-] Lotsen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

Su Linux is most likely the answer to lering younger people to use computers fedora is especially good becouse it has a nice package manager (dnf) that is easy to understand

[-] Ghoelian@feddit.nl 5 points 1 year ago

Hadn't heard of bottles before. Is it any different than Lutris?

[-] BlackSam@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 year ago

Not really, but they are alternatives to each other. Bottles can also be configured to run "normal" applications alongside possible games and stuff, while Lutris has more a "gaming" UI vibes (but you can run everything you want on both of them really) and additionally provides some integrations for other emulators. I think it comes down to personal tastes at the end of the day, both of them under the hood use wine/proton and apply settings to it before running the application

[-] z00s@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I still maintained that Linus fucked up those Linux videos on purpose. Not sure why but for a guy in the tech industry he really played dumb.

Really pissed me off. What has he got against Linux?

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[-] Espi@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Did you add Flathub or rpmfusion? the store without those things is kinda barren

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[-] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago

This is great lol. When my friend tried Linux Mint he had to go into the terminal to install Brave, as they don't just provide a .DEB like other browsers do. Maybe I should recommend Fedora to him as well.

[-] jsnc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You can find the flatpak version of Brave in the Mint software center. Many package maintainers don't allocate space for multiple web browser forks because they take a very long time to compile and update frequently (or have nonfree components like Vivaldi) so flatpaks are your best option.

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