Apparently my love language is installing @linux on the laptops of people I really care about.

  • bremen15@feddit.de
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    7 months ago

    It is really important that those loved ones understand your language, or else they would get annoyed.

  • lemmyreader@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    7 months ago

    These days installing Linux and upgrading it is easier than it was years ago. Installing Linux can be a good deed indeed :)

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      If you use modern and painless distro.models. I had a Fedora Atomic bug and the alternative was literally just rebasing to the same OS but automatically the same version and it worked.

  • atmur@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    7 months ago

    So far I’ve switched 4 people to Linux (with approval and interest obviously, plus unlimited tech support lol). 3 are happier with it than Windows and the other liked Linux but had to switch back to Windows due to some audio production software they needed.

    It’s also secretly been an experiment to see what distro is the most user friendly. I have one on Linux Mint, one on Debian, and the other on Fedora Silverblue. All three have been great, but I think the winner is Silverblue so far. I don’t love how quick Silverblue versions become EoL, but it’s also the distro with the easiest updater. It’s an Apple level of simplicity; click update, restart at some point, done. No scary package lists or changelogs, just a nice blue button to press.

    Also Flatpak + Flathub continues to be a huge contributor in making Linux friendly to normal people, in my opinion.

    • bitwolf@lemmy.one
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      7 months ago

      Id really love to get my mom on Silverblue but she refuses to use Libreoffice.

      Office 2023 is a little jank in WINE unfortunately 😞

      She’d be such an easy candidate otherwise, she only needs office, email, and Internet and loves the Thinkpad I gave her.

    • Pantherina@feddit.de
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      7 months ago

      Cool, agree on Fedora Atomic but you cant dualboot which is a huge problem for many.

      A person I know has an education in basically Adobe software. Completely insane but this is a thing.