I need to install an OS for someone whose first impulse upon seeing a screen is to touch it, because they are young and their first assumption is a touchscreen.

They know their way around Windows and Windows is probably tought to them at school, so Windows might actually be the smart move… but I fucking hate it.

Is ZorinOS or similar polished enough that I can leave it to someone whose tech literacy is centered around Roblox, TikTok and evading parental locks? I don’t want to normalize the Windows-bullshit. But I don’t want their first Linux-experience to be frustrating.

  • crater2150@feddit.org
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    8 hours ago

    And best of all, you get an OS that is secure, which traditional Linux distros aren’t due to every app having root access by default.

    What? Which distro runs everything as root by default?

    • Mike@lemm.ee
      2·
      6 hours ago

      In traditional distros, apps dependencies are mixed with system files. In atomic distros you use flatpaks which are containerized and don’t see system files.

      This is what I mean. I understand you can also install Flatpaks in traditional distros, but most people don’t install only flatpaks.

      • crater2150@feddit.org
        1·
        5 hours ago

        I know that, but that does not give apps root access. Unless you mean something else by root access than being run with root privileges

        • Mike@lemm.ee
          1·
          4 hours ago

          It’s not my opinion. The distribution architect at SUSE said so in reference to RPMs.

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