Choose Linux and make your PC personal again.

[coastalcoasting@universeodon.com]

@CSchwartz One of the downsides of living in a very small, tourist coastal town... little to no service options for many things. The senior center has some support services for things like printer jam help though.

[rgo@masto.pt]

@killyourfm Arch + i3wm here. NixOS for servers. Once you taste the control, proprietary OSes feel like training wheels.

[vivekanandanks@mstdn.social]

@killyourfm
So they removed one lie I guess

[codemonkeymike@fosstodon.org]

@killyourfm @CoastalCoasting correct. It's been amazing to see completely non tech people get on.

Getting it installed takes a little tech savvy (not much though) but once it's installed, there isn't much to deal with. Just use it!

This is the distro I use

https://nixbookos.org

[strule@organica.social]

@codemonkeymike @killyourfm @CoastalCoasting is it possible to adapt something like calamares to easy the install process on a future release?

[coastalcoasting@universeodon.com]

@codemonkeymike

What does distro mean?

[coastalcoasting@universeodon.com]

@codemonkeymike

And thank you, that's a help to have a reference point!

[coastalcoasting@universeodon.com]

@strule

calamari, as in octopus arms? is it software?

[strule@organica.social]

@CoastalCoasting it was a typo, I was referring to Calamares, Manjaro's/Cachy installer

[coastalcoasting@universeodon.com]

@strule

thanks, trying to learn and very easily confused in the initial stages. Your patience is appreciated

[powerfromspace1@mstdn.social]

@killyourfm no choice now that MSFT is force feeding son of clippy copilot down everyone's throat

[elduvelle@neuromatch.social]

@CoastalCoasting

Yes, there is a variant of Linux called "ZorinOS" which is very similar to Windows. Same shortcuts, same or similar programs, very intuitive and easy to use. But if you are not comfortable with computer stuff it would probably be easier to ask someone who is to install it for you.

https://zorin.com/os/

@killyourfm

[zeri@chaos.social]

@killyourfm Did that 20 years ago ... one of my better choices ... 5/5 would recommend.

[zander@infosec.exchange]

@killyourfm I jumped over to fedora when they announced the EOL date for win10. At first I setup dual-boot. I expected to be bouncing a lot. But it turns out I rarely needed it. A few months later I just wiped windows altogether. Never looked back. Not even for work. One work app had issue with normal Wine, but adding it as a non-steam game under steams Proton worked flawlessly.

Now I got most of my family switched over to the penguine, even grandparents. They all say only positive things too. 99% of what they do is web based anyway so no surprise there. But they love their laptops are "fast again". 🙂💪🐧

[mercutio@troet.cafe]

@killyourfm I installed Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) 7 on both my wife's and my mother's PC.
Trained about 1 hour with both, no problems and only minor questions since then.

Difficulty: Both play games that only run with Windows. Wine and Lutris solved that.