My grandma got along with Mint for Facebook browsing and KPatience.

If your mom is more into using real apps, plus the Windows UI, and you’re comfortable with some setup, I’d highly recommend Debian 13 with KDE Plasma and Flatpak, with the Flatpak-Discover integration. That’ll allow her to use lightweight, stable apps from apt, or more recent, but larger apps from Flathub, and install it all herself through Discover. Honestly, there should be a distro for that.

I’d be using that myself if it weren’t for some very specific software I need from the AUR.

Don’t worry, we’ll keep your data very safe… On our hands…

bs-manager flatpak won’t work, the AUR version does. That’s more convincing than I’ll ever need to go back to Arch.

Debian has fastfetch now. Neofetch is properly dead.

You may not like it, but this is what the peak full stack dev looks like.

Wait till you learn about the Wilhelm scream…

Fair enough, have a nice day.

You know who else is, publicly, very confident in what they’re doing? Microsoft.

Install fish

chsh -s /usr/bin/fish

That’s all, folks.

Who the fuck still uses Ubuntu in 2025?

AI is more susceptible to misinformation than the average AI user would be without AI.

Wtf is an OS release?

This editing gave me a headache

No one is obligated to have internet, and there are actually people who don’t have it. The TV isn’t sold as an “online only” product, they cannot block you from using something that works offline because you’re offline.

You should’ve never connected it in the first place. Never even set up any functions that a piece of hardware prompts you to. Most of those are enforced only because the company behind them gains something from you having them set up. Unless you actually need something that depends on that function, disable the function.

In case anyone wants to yap about why niri is better than tiling wms, I’m interested in reading it.

Malware in some user-made package on the internet?

Now set up a virtual machine and install Arch on it.

If you want to really learn Linux, that is. After that, you might just settle for pure Debian.

The military asylum nation

Ubuntu was, and still is, to a new user, just as easy to set up as it is to break. Every Debian based distro that tries to “fix” the outdated packages “problem” suffers from that.