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I think the biggest fundamental concept for any computer regardless of operating system is filesystem hierarchy. The concept of nested folders is core to using a personal computer, but for the last two decades UI/X teams have done everything in their power to obscure and abstract it away. Many younger people conceptualize the storage on their device as just an amorphous blob that apps manage autonomously. Windows is starting to go this way as well with OneDrive being sold as the way to manage all your data, but on Linux the file system is still king.

Your mom is presumably old enough to have some experience with desktop PCs, so hopefully that basic hurdle is already cleared. And honestly once someone is at that level of base competence, along with basic interface concepts like how to use a mouse and keyboard, clicking on icons, use of a web browser etc, with the right distro you really don't need to explain much else. There might be a few quirks of the UI to explain depending on what you choose, but most of that can be handled by just watching them use the computer for a bit, and/or asking them to give you a list of questions and annoyances after they use it for a few days.

The biggest difference is one that most "I just want it to work" users will actually love, and that's relearning how to install software. Having one central location to install verified software from is a change from the wild west of downloading installers from the internet, but it shouldn't be a difficult transition. Most people these days don't even install software beyond maybe Zoom, so you can probably get away with just installing any third party software they need in the initial setup.

I recommend an immutable distro like Fedora Silverblue, at least if a) you're setting it up and are reasonably technical, and b) you don't want to go over and help them fix stuff often. I set my mom's laptop up with it 4+ years ago and she's only had one problem since then.

To be fair "terrorism" is always a euphemism for "enemies of the state". The vast majority of actual terrorism on civilian populations in the last century has been perpetrated by state actors, and the majority of that by the US.

Because the entire US political spectrum fits nearly inside of "neoliberalism". Liberalism in general is just capitalism+.

They use male pronouns and refer to one by a male name, do you know what names they prefer?

Is it non-trivial to enable non-free repos?

Having been in this position, sure, but I've also had to end relationships because the person transitioned in a direction I wasn't attracted to. Communicating honestly and openly is the key, as it is for pretty much everything about interpersonal relationships.

Well of course!

Which are not normal people, aka weirdos.

Well anecdotally many of us have the opposite experience so I guess sucks to be you?

A) that's not a criticism... Every game in any defined genre is "just another x".

B) I still think HK is superlative among its peers in many ways.

C) Ori is fine but is a lot more one-note than many games in the genre. The story is very derivative and the main interesting gameplay element is the mechanical way the jump works. The second game I really disliked, but the first one is unobjectionable.

Oh okay yeah on big hits there is a bit of hitstop.

Yeah the "for console" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here.