What is the best distro to install on your Grandma's old but speedy desktop?

I wouldn't know, my grandma got dementia last year and has been getting progressively worse since. For two months, she has gradually stopped using my name when addressing me and sometimes I feel she doesn't remember who I am and simply acts well-mannered.
ElementaryOS would be an OK choice for skype and a browser, nice big icons.

Unironically Ubuntu or Ubuntu MATE

Not well supported

Maybe. Looks good.

Nope

Maybe. Looks good and easy.

Debian isn't that nood friendly.

Might work.

Xubuntu

ElemementaryOS?

Lel, macOS
>never breaks
>not a riced out gentoo on a thinkpad but literallty the smoothest OS imaginable, so easy a retard could figure it out
>grandma isn’t playing WOW and watching porn at the same time so is ok to buy an air or other cheap Mac because she doesn’t needs good hardware.
Good guy for treating you grandma man you a good guy man I’m drunk man Fuck

Linux Mint. If not, any *buntu should do the trick

Why

>unironically installing an operating system
enjoy your bloatware

My 68 year old mother uses Fedora with XFCE4. But she might as well use Ubuntu, it doesn't really matter that much as long as you spend a week or two showing her how to use it.

Windows 7 runing in a VM inside Tails inside Qubes OS

So many meme answers. Kubuntu is buggy and unstable, and if she's smart enough to ask for or google help it'll all be showing an Ubuntu interface.

Ubuntu is the only choice.
Maybe Mint if you're going for the "so similar grandma thinks she's running Windows" look.

Windows, don't force linux on granma you goddamn spastic.

my family was unironically using arch until i686 was dropped
now they use Lubuntu with the same setup -- plain openbox tint and pcmanfm
would recommend for your grandma as well altho imo gnome is best for seniors because UI elements are bigger and meta to show all windows is the easiest

or Zorin

Linux is actually significantly easier for non tech people.

Grandma isn't exactly going to be playing Steam games or installing photoshop. Windows won't bug and confuse her with updates that break everything. You can leave her on a LTS Ubuntu for several years without any problems. I have a 5 year old *buntu install on a netbook and it still boots fine without any scary "YOU MUST UPDATE NAO!!1!!!1!" messages
She just wants to follow the menus around, click on the internets, and when she tries to run [grandma's bank name here]-1002.ru/your-account/bank-statement.exe then fuck all is going to happen.
Meanwhile she can go watch kittens on youtube and shitpost on facebook all she likes never even knowing what Linux or Ubuntu even is.

Unironically this.

I gave GNOME a fair chance and liked it. I moved away after a month because it's bloated and crashed all the time, but that's because I tried doing too much.

If all you want to do is use facebook and libreoffice then gnome is fine.

Crunchbang++
Q4os

As a debfag, go deb. Once it's setup well, you really have to put effort into breaking it. Don't try any anti-poettering tricks, it'll make it worse for her. Go with something like LXQt or Cinnamon although Qt is a lot more sensible and less soykaf than GTK. Also setup an ssh server securely and root password, and be ready to help her.

My 91 year old grandpa uses that. Some tweaking of menus and font sizes and it's fine.

ZorinOS Lite or Solus.
>Not well supported
It's Ubuntu/Debian based.

Kali linux is what are you looking for.

Serious answer. Buy her one of those $150 Asus chromebox so she can spend her few remaining years with a machine she will have zero problems with. If she needs it to be more than what chrome os can do ( I have never met an old person that did), buy here a used mac pro for a few hundred.

My older sister use alpine linux with openbox in her desktop.

Debian

Any Ubuntu flavour, openSUSE, Manjaro, Mageia, MX

Bullshit

I'll be doing the same for my Grandpa. Windows just has too much upkeep these days in addition to being a resource hog. I've just been trying to find the best it-just-works and let-me-handle-that-for-you distro

just install windows 7 man, stop making your granny's life complicated for no reason

I wish your grandmother the best user

Linux stays the fuck out of your way. If you're doing simple computer stuff it's absolutely fine, and if you set it up properly it'll be much better for the tech illiterate

You should probably specify what she would use it for

My 90 something grandma is using OpenSUSE Leap.

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gah just tried gnome 3.28 performance is crap laggy mpv frame drops radeon free drivers, have to look into this /later/

>Linux is actually significantly easier for non tech people.

said nobody ever

I literally and unironically have my grandma running Arch with KDE.
I set it up so there is only one huge firefox icon on the desktop and she cannot change anything.
I also have reverse ssh connection there so i can fix shit just in case.
There was no need for me to fix anything except for updates now and then for years though.

If you really wanna dig into it yea it's harder. If you're doing everyday stuff then it really is easier so long as somebody sets it up for you specifically with ease of use in mind. You don't have a clue what you're talking about

Its not incest if she doesn't remember you're her grandson user.
Go for it ;)

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what the fuck

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this is the only reasonable answer

Netbsd with custom kernel and cshell, no gui and a thick book. Make her learn user.

>im not too impressed with this OS, sonny -- it doesn't respond to my decryption arrays heuristically

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>She needs a real OS
Windows 7

> Solus
Pile of shit. Was setting up for my grandpa but never switched him over. I did nothing but run updates and the system broke twice.

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don't install ubuntu -it'll work fine until an update breaks something or other, if it does install automatic updates at all-
just set her up with a windows 10 machine with a non admin user so she can't install random shitware. otherwise just an android tablet or something

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>don't install ubuntu -it'll work fine until an update breaks something or other

Does Ubuntu shit itself when you do say. and update from 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS?

TempleOS, she'll like that you're going to church.

Why not LinuxMint with Cinnamon GUI?

Basically just like Ubuntu but it's not completely fucked and will warn you before installing proprietary software.

>Non-free software? You mean I have to pay for this stuff, user? Why is it giving me this warning?

Pop OS

LinPeep

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I'd say Gentoo, but in this case LFS is fine

sad memer

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why?

cloveros.ga/s/CloverOS-x86_64-20180331.iso

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There are like three icons on the menu

system76.com/pop

Is it good on old hardware? It looks like it doesn’t take up much memory.