Post · Kakapo Social

Ok, so, getting linux laptops into the hands of younger people is going to require a bit of infrastructure in terms of being able to offer and direct them to support.

The new UI also, hope, should not be overly challenging.

For support access, my suspicion in that, in London, they're most likely able to access help for Ubuntu running gnome.

Consensus on UI seems to be that Mint is easier.

So, fedi, I'm soliciting your linux opinions. For non-tech noobs who just want to do their homework and surf the internet, is Mint actually easier? Is there much support out there?

Links to good support sites welcome. Boosts welcome.

#ubuntu #mint #linux

kontrollierterWahnwitz

@kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social replied · 4 days ago

@celesteh For non-tech noobs I would actually recommend a so called "immutable" distribution.

With such a distribution your core system is read-only and the applications will be delivered in containers (Flatpak).

For the end user this means that it is hard to break the core system while the user is stil able to easily install the apps they want.

This creates a smartphone-ish user experience.

In my opinion the most mature immutable distribution is Fedora Silverblue.

kontrollierterWahnwitz

@kontrollierterWahnwitz@sueden.social replied · 4 days ago

@celesteh Generally I would ignore distrowatch and use one of the more established distributions like Ubuntu, openSuse, Fedora.

Mint is a pretty good fork of Ubuntu, so I would count it as an well established distribution, too.

Gnome as a desktop is IMHO one of many good choices.They tend to simplify things too much, but people of the smartphone generation should be absolutely fine with it.