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Doesn't the Mint software center prompt for an admin authentication if you install a .deb package?
If so, an immutable OS like Silverblue would be technically more simple, seeing as flatpak installation doesn't require sudo.
It does, but I wasn't even thinking of it.
Mint has flatpak integrated in it's software management tool, so that might be enough.
Fedora maybe, I usually hear powere users using it, but for Mint I know that my parents and girlfriend don't have any issues.
Fedora is a bit more complicated to install and configure, but once that's done it's not a difficult distro to use. And Silverblue makes it even easier to maintain than Mint as it's immutable.