[PLUG] Linux for non-computer person

Patrick O'Connor refugia at zoho.com
Sat Jan 4 16:52:45 UTC 2025


https://universal-blue.discourse.group/t/installing-bluefin-onto-a-framework-laptop-13-amd-intel/1817


If you want an image based Linux you can use bluefin.


The updates rollback if there is an issue. It has more guard rails. 


That's what I put on my wife's laptop. It's been a smoother ride than Ubuntu for her.


I think flatpak is a fine GUI app store for most folks.


Patrick






---- On Sat, 04 Jan 2025 06:05:06 -0800 wchast at gmail.com wrote ----


> Good day folks and happy new year...
> I am about to install linux on a computer for my wife. It will be a
> Framework 13. Now the fun part.
> My wife has been a real luddite, but he smartphone has slowly showed her
> that she needs to have
> a real computer for daily work. She wanted something small and light I
> showed her the Framework 13 I have, she wants one.
>
> So my question is what distro should I put on this thing that will be easy
> for a very non-computer person to use.
>
> I am not with her all the time. She is in Costa Rica as executor of her
> father's estate, I go down
> there when I can to help, and we are also starting a new business which
> entails export from
> Costa Rica to USA. So she does need a computer (I have been telling her
> that now for many
> years).
>
> So what distro would be best for her to start out with?
>
> --
>
> Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT --
> I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
> Ph 4:13 KJV
> Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece.
> Fil 4:13 RVR1960


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