She's tech illiterate and has an old PC that windows 7 runs like sludge on. I need a linux distro that she can use for basic browsing and managing pictures that will be intuitive enough for her to mostly rely on the GUI. Any suggestions?
What's the best distro for my mom?
Matthew Cooper
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Joshua Ward
i solved a similar situation for my parents
installed arch, then i3wm
have firefox opened at all times
if it crashes, the keybind to re open it is written on a piece of paper next to the monitor
Aaron Stewart
my mom really likes linux mint cinnamon and has been using it for years. it's pretty low maintenance and easy to use.
Aaron Rogers
That's great for just browsing but she really loves her pictures and I want a windows esque DTE so she feels comfortable using it. I was considering linux mint/cinnamon but I rock manjaro on my personal set up and don't have much experience with debian if she runs in to a problem. I could install something like xfce. what do you think?
Oliver King
GNUStep
Cooper Mitchell
for your case openSuse
dont listen to anyone else
Jackson Turner
I've never used that. Guessing it's ultra lightweight?
Gavin Powell
Linux Mint.
t. non Arch user.
Lucas Cooper
nice
Adrian Allen
Pen and paper. Baby boomers are retarded with computers.
Dominic Morales
>arch
>i3
>for boomer mom
mental illness
Wyatt Russell
OpenSUSE?
It has YaST and shit.
Adam Perry
Solid, stable, respectable choice: Mint
Bold, daring, yet viable: open Suse
Opensuse also comes with IceWM which is very lightweight, although it's not the prettiest DE
Elijah Turner
gentoo. wait hear me out. Do you really want the woman that raised you running precompiled software? Do the right thing. Install gentoo.
Hunter Ross
Elementary OS has "for old people" written all over it.
James Jones
Just don't be bitch and buy her a new laptop.
Ethan Wilson
Mint/Cinnamon works for me and the only time my dumbass needs the terminal is to use my vpn. You are good man. But put firefox oon it for her and add some firefox extensions like dark night and custimize firefx so that the zoom function is on the task bar, set her search bar from duckduckgo to google
Henry Collins
Arch
Openbox
Firefox
Whatever Software you were planning on using for pictures
Don't give here sudo privileges and do maintenance yourself over ssh.
t. Did literally the same thing and it works swimmingly.
Eli Bennett
Install Cloudready (ChromeOS without the Android apps)
it's gentoo-based and practically mom-proof
Matthew Turner
Don't try to reinvent the wheel with some new solution you think is clever. Just give her the closest thing to what she's used to.
Oliver Evans
this is the only correct answer here. She is your mom OP, don't be a jew.