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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)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/linux

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Okay but... will putting Linux on it be any better, in your view, or are you saying Windows or bust?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Could be good if they are willing to try, and you choose a distro that closely resembles Windows. And they aren't purchasing new hardware and their current Windows OS isn't being supported anymore.

Big fan of if it works, why change it?

Also, don't promise them that it'll be perfect and magical, set their expectations to be realistic. (This is where typically people convinced to buy a Mac quickly learn to hate it. They are promised it will never have problems and then they have one problem after another, leading to hating it and tired of having to message for more help. And a lot of people I've found that sing blind praises for anything are the same ones quick to blame and down talk users when things goes wrong)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh that's definitely true - if their existing machine works and they only want to get away from Windows then it's not even a question (putting Mac OSX onto a not-Mac hardware just isn't quite the same experience...:-P), definitely go with Linux then.

Yeah there is no OS in existence and never will be one that has zero issues, true dat. Windows included.