She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that
Is there any specialist software she needs, or is it browser based?
All this time you actually had two cats, they were just never in the same place at the same time!
Ctrl+D sends EOF, so no it's not like enter.
To be honest, I wouldn't on a 2Gb laptop. It'll run Linux just fine but the minute you use a browser or office suite you'll have memory problems.
How? How? How is it this fucking close America?
That's why you clean your surfaces before preparing food!
I'm not sure if it's niche but openSUSE Tumbleweed isn't as popular as it deserves to be. If you are looking for more niche, back in my distro hopping days I enjoyed Kaos and Solus
Yes you can but you often see the terminal used when helping people online. This is because it works across desktop environments and mostly across distros, however it does give the impression that the terminal is needed.
They take Ubuntu LTS and add their software on top of it. Ubuntu is the base. It's stable because it's unchanging, you only get security and bug fixes, no new versions except the Neon additions. It's implemented like it is because starting with a complete and freely available distro like Ubuntu is a lot less work than building from scratch.
I think it qualifies as a distro by any current definition, but maybe not one they expect to be in general use. It seems to be quite popular despite that. I've never used it though so I can't comment on how it is.
It runs on generic hardware so you don't have to pay the Apple tax.