• Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.mlB
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      My dad thought the XFCE-Materia-Theme is the occasional Windows redesign until i told him.

      And last month he wanted his antivirus back, even though i explained it already. But he’s good at other things.

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      There is fine line with being tech illiterate and being able to use linux when it all just works. The problems arise only when you are just slightly more advanced and want to do something weird without actually being able do it in linux with some things being a bit too much for the average Joe.

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      I tried to install I think Ubuntu for my parents. I failed to find a way to properly allow short/simple passwords after like 2 hours of fiddling with configs. Gave up on it after that.

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          Well, its between allowing that and not using Linux at all so that is that. If I could get them to remeber a strong password, it would not be for PC login.

          What distro would you recommend? I was under the impression Ubuntu was furthest with UIs.

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            I would recomment Mint to users who use their Computer for more than just Webbrowsing. If its just webbrowsing and you know Linux, try setting up Fedora silverblue. In my vm’s two digit passwords work.

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              Hmmm, I had mint for a little bit once. I don’t remember having any issues with it which probably means it is good. Paradoxically it also made me forget about it somewhat.

              But I really have an urge to try NixOS for myself… And I don’t really want to mess with my parents setup now.

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            I’ve found that OpenSuse Tumbleweed is better than both Ubuntu and Linux Mint.

            They set out to make a distro that is kept up to date perpetually instead of managing different versions.