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[–] [email protected] 36 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Just switch away from the Garbage on your private computer

https://fedoraproject.org/workstation/

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Go atomic instead, assuming your needs are relatively limited. Here are the Fedora variants:

That way you don't have to care about what's going on under the hood, you just install your apps as flatpaks and you're off to the races.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

Was looking at Silverblue and then found Universal Blue. Much easier: https://universal-blue.org/

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Oh, good lord. Have you met my 82-year old father?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago

Set him up with the KDE Environment. It's quite similar to Windows

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 days ago

He probably only uses a web browser, so as long as you make it look familiar, he probably wouldn't notice.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 days ago

I set up my 80 year old mother with linux