I bought a Laptop for my Mommy for Mother's Day (tomorrow), but I'm trying to figureout what Linux Distro to flash on it...A part of me was considering something like Elementary or Zorin, since they both are normiefriendly, but I'm conflicted.What do you think bros?
>>108785201Ubuntu 26.04 LTS with Ubuntu Pro.>t. Debian enjoyer
>Linuxyou're gonna give her a heart attack.
>>108785201If you really love your mom you should buy her a macbook
>>108785201OpenBSD or Artix
>>108785201Specs?my recommendation would be Mint or Ubuntu depending on the specs. If more than 6 gb of ram then Ubuntu, if less then Mint.
>>108785201Zorin with enterprise-level support
>>108785213This or mint.
>>108785213>>108785619Thanks anons. Both Ubuntu and Mint are really promising for noobies.>>108785231I'm going to walk her through it, and maybe I'll show her how to use the terminal if she gets acustomed to it :)>>108785402I'm too broke for a macbook lulWells...I'm not, but macbooks seem like a YUGE waste of money considering you can get similar performance for less, and you would be locked into the AppleEcosystem.>>108785411OpenBSD? Artix? Those are really advanced man, so I'm not sure but I'll consider it, thank you.>>108785431>Specs?Intel i5-5300U, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSD.>>108785447enterprise-level? Would that be the Pro version that costs money?
>>108785201Aurora is the ideal choice I think. Immutable, KDE, Fedora base but with everything set up already. This is what I'm putting on devices for people who mostly only check email and browse the web
>>108785201secureblue
>>108785201linux from scratch
>>108785684>Intel i5-5300U, 8GB RAM, and a 256GB SSDThen the new Ubuntu would run great.
>>108785201Just put mint mate or cinnamon on it. Itll look very nice and be relatively snappy and normie friendly without too much bullshit.
Sorry OP.I got my mom a MacBook Neo for Mother’s Day. She’s going to be so happyYour mom is not going to tell you but she’s going to be so disappointed in you.
>>108785684>Thanks anons. Both Ubuntu and Mint are really promising for noobiesYou're welcome. Ubuntu is the better choice, especially if she has a HiDPI display on a modern Intel GPU. Mint will tear/glitch in this scenario because it uses ancient display technology (X11).
>>108785693This or bazzite. Should be hard for her to mess up. Ssh into her machine for troubleshooting
>>108785201Install windows unless you want her to suffer.
>>108786221Based and moneypilled.Sorry OP, unless you're just plain poor (which I understand myself growing up with nothing), then the MacBook would be a far better mom-tier gift. Fake some educational enrollment and get it for $500 and it'll be the best gift she gets for years to come.
you should probably try a few different distros. maybe you could even film your mom trying the different distros to get her reaction and post it on youtube for us to watch and encourage her
>>108785201Dude if you are too poor for a mac, get windows. Don't make your mom's life harder.
>>108785201God damn the levels of complete stupidity and inability to realize intended audiences never cease to amaze me on this board. You're going to give an older, possibly post-menopausal woman, a linux computer for a daily driver? Fucking Christ OP you're dumb.Buy her a windows mini PC or a Mac. That's about your only choices, and if you do such a thing, realize you'll be doing tech support forever.
>>108786842What's going to be hard about clicking on the browser icon and then having the exact same experience she would have on any other OS?
>>108786907Some things are just not supported on linux or particular software on it. Example: slack calls. For (You) it's "fun" to debug this, for your mom it's annoyance.
>>108786969She already didn't have a laptop. She's not making Slack calls.
>>108785402>If you really love your mom you should buy her a macbookAs if your mom needed any more confirmation that you're a faggot
>>108785201Fedora, that's what my mom uses. She still thinks that XFCE is Windows XP.*Tips*
>>108787006I only gave you an example from my recent experience. I don't use normalnigger software so I can't give relevant examples but I bet little normalnigger-friendly software is on linux. No, wine won't cut it.
>>108786867Just give yourself remote access to their computer and you can fix all their tech support issues with zero annoying phone calls
>>108787337Simply read and comprehend my post and you will be able to tell what software she will be using.It is the same software every person who doesn't even own their own computer of their own volition uses.
mint mint MINT god damn MINT
Seriously dont give your mom a linux pc...Take it back and get the macbook neo
>>108785201Devuan with KDE purely to avoid systemd :) mint is also a really good choice damn I'm having flashback to my teens when I was more computer retarded and it was very user friendly even back then
>>108785201>my Mommyh-hot...
>>108785201Debian with KDE
>>108785201Zorin, if its a new highend laptop.Mint if it's low specs/old laptop.
>>108785201>ElementaryIt's trannyware, stay away from it.
>>108785201i think i could have buy a nice thing for my mom but she told me a book will be enough so i'm spend half my betabuxx for going to madrid because there's this latina who wants to chupo all night the rubito.to answer to your thread : linux mint.It works.
>>108785201The macbook neo is realistically the best laptop for most non-technical people right now.If it's too late for that then I'd probably go with Fedora Silverblue since the update mechanism is pretty bulletproof. (If codecs are an issue then maybe bazzite instead.)
slightly offtopic guys buthow do you know you truly love a girl if you never fucked her mom?
>>108785201MacOS
>>108785201whats was that one youtube channel called again? oldfags will know what im talking about
