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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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So far I’ve switched 4 people to Linux (with approval and interest obviously, plus unlimited tech support lol). 3 are happier with it than Windows and the other liked Linux but had to switch back to Windows due to some audio production software they needed.
It’s also secretly been an experiment to see what distro is the most user friendly. I have one on Linux Mint, one on Debian, and the other on Fedora Silverblue. All three have been great, but I think the winner is Silverblue so far. I don’t love how quick Silverblue versions become EoL, but it’s also the distro with the easiest updater. It’s an Apple level of simplicity; click update, restart at some point, done. No scary package lists or changelogs, just a nice blue button to press.
Also Flatpak + Flathub continues to be a huge contributor in making Linux friendly to normal people, in my opinion.
Id really love to get my mom on Silverblue but she refuses to use Libreoffice.
Office 2023 is a little jank in WINE unfortunately 😞
She'd be such an easy candidate otherwise, she only needs office, email, and Internet and loves the Thinkpad I gave her.
The browser versions aren't too awful, if that's an option.
Its way worse than Libreoffice tbh. They removed random stuff like pagination.
Just tell her to get gud and start using ViM for everything
That would explain why her tea is always cold. She doesn't want to risk losing work by leaving without saving but gets stuck in Insert mode.
I’ve got ZorinOS 17 running on a laptop I share with my partner. Her initial reaction was “what is this?” but now that she’s used to it, she’s been happy.
Silverblue looks quite interesting, I might give it a go in a VM. As long as it kinda looks like Windows it shouldn’t be too hard of a transition
What about onlyoffice? The UI is a lot more modern which is probably the issue right?
The issue I’ve run into is primarily compatibility with existing documents and being able to share it with other in industry. Like it or not, for business in the US, the office suite is pretty much the only document & spreadsheet application you can expect everyone to have.
It’s not fair to ask people who aren’t interested in learning linux to deal with the incompatibilities between Libre/Open office and O365 because “I don’t like Microsoft”. If they’re pushing to move away from MS and understand this, I’d still probably recommend LibreOffice over OpenOffice because moving someone from a well maintained industry standard Microsoft product to a less supported and less compatible Oracle app seems irresponsible.
Edit: The whole second paragraph is about OpenOffice and not OnlyOffice. Please disregard
Cool, agree on Fedora Atomic but you cant dualboot which is a huge problem for many.
A person I know has an education in basically Adobe software. Completely insane but this is a thing.
If I recall silver blue needed you to choose the new default at boot ( after uograde). is it still like that? if so I'd go with OpenSUSE GNOME, you get and update notice on the top notice bar , click update and packages install. Reboot defaults to latest snapshot
Please don't force Linux onto people, it'll only make them hate it.
I assume they are installing it with their approval...
I've installed Linux on my old family PC. It's been two years and they haven't noticed.
What a madlad.
With consent is perfectly fine, yeah
@isVeryLoud
dw consent comes first🥵🥵 their machine, their choice (until the manufacturer has their saying, that is)
I've noticed a lot of people are moving to it on there own.
Yes that way they're trapped and need you for tech support, classic move.
These days installing Linux and upgrading it is easier than it was years ago. Installing Linux can be a good deed indeed :)
If you use modern and painless distro.models. I had a Fedora Atomic bug and the alternative was literally just rebasing to the same OS but automatically the same version and it worked.
This person here is doing the Lord's work. Thank you, OP, and have a great day.
If I did this they wouldn't be my loved ones for long...
How does this work?? This is a mastodon post but it appears on Lemmy?
OP tagged Linux in the post and that specific tag actually links to !linux@lemmy.ml resulting in the Mastodon post being posted to the community
They both use the ActivityPub protocol, this means that Lemmy and Mastodon can communicate with each other.
Yes, the question was how specifically this worked, think I have understood
It is really important that those loved ones understand your language, or else they would get annoyed.
@linux
whoops I did it again.
@alpinelinux as a single-boot daily driver for a #windows user with some past @ubuntu experience
I usually install MX or LMDE. MX KDE and LMDE Cinnamon on newer machines. MX xfce and LMDE xfce on older machiness.