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choosing a version of Linux for my mom (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 day ago by sylvieslayer@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Welp.... My mom is apparently done with windows (yay!) Anf wants me to move her laptop to Linux (oh nooo). I personally use Ubuntu studios but im not sure what to get for her. She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that. Do y'all have any suggestions on where to start? TIA

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[–] maxwells_daemon@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

My grandma got along with Mint for Facebook browsing and KPatience.

If your mom is more into using real apps, plus the Windows UI, and you're comfortable with some setup, I'd highly recommend Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Flatpak, with the Flatpak-Discover integration. That'll allow her to use lightweight, stable apps from apt, or more recent, but larger apps from Flathub, and install it all herself through Discover. Honestly, there should be a distro for that.

I'd be using that myself if it weren't for some very specific software I need from the AUR.

[–] LeFantome@programming.dev 1 points 3 hours ago

Have you heard of Distrobox?

You can run Debian and still get access to the AUR. I moved from Arch to Chimera Linux and but I still get a few things out of the AUR.

With Distrobox export, you can even add them into the app menu in KDE. So you do not even have to manually launch Distrobox to use them.