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.

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    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.

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      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

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        3 hours ago

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

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