Welp… My mom is apparently done with windows (yay!) Anf wants me to move her laptop to Linux (oh nooo). I personally use Ubuntu studios but im not sure what to get for her. She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that. Do y’all have any suggestions on where to start? TIA

  • WFH@lemmy.zip
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    8 days ago

    uBlue Bluefin or Aurora. Tested and approved. I moved my dad on Bluefin one year ago, no issues, it just works for his use case (90% of the time in a browser, light photo editing in Krita, some text editing). No maintenance, no updates, no actual knowledge needed as a daily user, just a single reboot once a week to boot the freshest system image.

    And more importantly, it keeps on working despite his talent for fucking up every single piece of software he lays his hands on.

    https://projectbluefin.io/

    https://getaurora.dev/en

    • notarobot@lemmy.zip
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      8 days ago

      I’ve never heard of these. Which is not a bad thing, but I wouldn’t recommend for beginers

      • WFH@lemmy.zip
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        7 days ago

        You’ve never heard of atomic/immutable distros? You’re part of the lucky 10,000 ;)

        Bluefin, Aurora and their much more popular sister Bazzite are part of the universalBlue project: a delivery pipeline that lets anyone build their own, maintenance free atomic distro.

        All uBlue projects are 100% based on Fedora Silverblue, itself an atomic distro based on Fedora. Which means that uBlue projects get automatic weekly upgrades just like Silverblue.

        For people not familiar with Linux, and people who don’t want to spend any time maintaining their OS (HTPC, gaming rig etc), it’s amazing.

    • SunRed@discuss.tchncs.de
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      8 days ago

      +1 for uBlue. I did the same for my mother on her laptop and desktop PC for office work. Chose Aurora in this case. Setting system and flatpak updates to automatic means I hopefully never have to look after these systems again as the distro maintainers basically do the maintenance. Setting up Secure Boot with the shim/MOK method and TPM auto-unlocking for full disk encryption using the ujust scripts is a breeze as well.

    • rotorwashed@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      8 days ago

      +1 for Bluefin or Aurora. I daily this and I love how boring it is and haven’t broken after an update.