Tonight I am about to install endless os for my non technical partner. Do you think that is a good idea? Would you do the same?
It’s worth a shot. Non-technical users are it’s target demographic.
I would pick something immutable like this. Non-technical users aren’t going to get under the hood and tinker, like many Linux users do.
Turns out she needs a bit of proprietary software (pixum for photo books) that I could not install on EndlessOS. So I had to change course and installed pop os. So far I am pleasantly suprised. Even though I thought I would not like it, their take on GNOME makes sense to me. Tiling is fun.
PopOS is currently developing their own spin on a immutable OS, but that’s still a long way from shipping to users. I’m curious, if other distros broke, why would it be different with current PopOS?
Did not know this. Immutable Ubuntu plus flatpack sounds awesome. Not sure what to think about their plans to fork cosmic from GNOME.
I just trying Q4OS Aquarius KDE (I love KDE btw) with “Pure Profile” install yesterday, and I’ll say clearly that nothing can beats their minimalist approach on system as far as I distro hopping on many Linux. The satisfied feeling with start from really pure system is so pure joy…
Need Tod check that out. Never heard of it. I myself run KDE as part of the mighty garuda Linux. Pure is not the word I would use to describe garuda though.
If she’s coming from Windows, Mint is a much better choice with Cinnamon
Has been using Ubuntu for a while but kept destroying it. I aim at a stable base with modern applications.
Ok, I’m normally against this, but this sounds like a job for nix.
Nice idea. I`d love to love nix but I think it is too involved for me. Maybe I have to try again but I need results tonight, so this might be for another time.
Maybe you should give a try to an immutable OS like Fedora Silverblue or Kinoite.
They are very hard to break.
Thanks for your suggestions. Silverblue might be a good idea. I am more in the Debian based camp but maybe it is time for a change. I think it gets major updates as often as fedora “normal”. This might not be ideal for us though.
If you like Debian, then just wait for Vanilla OS. The next big release (a open beta should be out soon) will switch from Ubuntu to Debian. I will switch instantly if there’s a KDE variant.
Wow, that looks very promising. Will keep that in mind. Thanks for the tip.
