Is this a decent OS to move users off Win too that I won’t have to do a lot of remote maintenance on? I have a few varied OS’s installed on machines around and Cinnamon I have found to look/feel a lot like Windows 7 which would benefit the learning curve for family/friends looking or needing to find an OS to install on a machine that isn’t newer.

Curious if anyone has used this, and if so if it is a good fit for those 60+ aged family members and such. They have all used Windows for work at least a decent amount, so keeping things similar is always good. A decent App Store would be nice though. I hated the default store in Pop_OS.

If I could say do updates and reboot every once in awhile and you should be fine it’d be great. Remoting in with RustDesk and sudo Apt Update/Upgrade being all that is needed also would be great, but you know how that goes. Someone will break something, and I just want something intuitive enough that they won’t do it often.

  • 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    5 days ago

    Ubuntu LTS base is not suited for desktop use. Being lightweight also just seems completely unnecessary as a ‘Windows 10 replacement’ OS. Just use Fedora or Arch.

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      5 days ago

      Lightweight to me just means I can use it in any situation regardless of what shitty or wonderful device they happen to need it on. And it can match all devices they end up needing it on. Say a media player with stremio, or a laptop, desktop etc. I understand what you mean though. Arch from everything I have heard isn’t for beginners so as someone who has used 5 or so different Linux distros, maybe more… Have avoided it because the stigma that people have put around it. Is Fedora Debian based? I am unsure I’ve used it. I suppose I am looking for something with LTS that can be used across a multitude of hardware so I can create a “standardized” image per say, and then just adjust to meet the needs of specific hardware while always allowing them to have basically the same interface so they dont have to learn how to navigate situations differently across devices.

      • 737@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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        5 days ago

        A device that can’t run a normal desktop environment/compositor/wm just isn’t worth keeping, if it can’t run plasma, it can’t run a browser or anything useful either (and you can get a 10 year old laptop/office pc basically for free).