Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won’t break accidentally? The set up doesn’t have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.

My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don’t want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.

  • lilith267English
    37·
    6 days ago

    Linux mint is a good, “click first” distro that won’t break without root + will be easy for her to use. For something with a more modern desktop and more recent updates, Bazzite is really good at just working and (in my experience) has never broken

          • quarterlife@lemmy.sdf.org
            5·
            5 days ago

            Bro I’m the lead developer and I’m just now seeing this, just accept you called the viral marketing wrong.

            We’ve grown to the point that when I market something, I tell people not to listen to me because I’m biased.

            • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
              4·
              6 days ago

              I tried mx for 7 minutes. it installed nvidia drivers and that killed it. off to the next distro I hopped, knowing the problem could have been easy to fix. shame, it seemed interesting.

              • fenndev@leminal.spaceEnglish
                8·
                6 days ago

                “Someone mentions a distro they like” ≠ shilling. I use Bazzite and have been for months. Before that, used Nobara, EndeavourOS, and vanilla Fedora, along with a number of others I tried when I was distro-hopping. Wholeheartedly believe that Bazzite is currently the best generally-available Linux distro for gaming and is up there for general use. It’s not perfect, but nothing is - it gets close for the use-cases I mentioned, though.

          • asap@lemmy.worldEnglish
            4·
            5 days ago

            You know the build scripts which turn Fedora Kinoite into Bazzite are all open on GitHub, right… 🤦

    • kusivittula@sopuli.xyz
      4·
      6 days ago

      I have tried most known distros but not bazzite, yet. might be the next one on my distrohop journey since everyone recommends it. hope it works better than fedora kde, it does not get along with my hardware AT ALL