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Distro suggestions for grandparents? (aussie.zone)

submitted 5 months ago by PetulantBandicoot@aussie.zone to c/linuxquestions@lemmy.zip

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Hello there. Was wondering if anyone had any suggestions for a Linux distro for grandparents? They are over 70 years old, with an old HP desktop and laptop running Windows 10. All they need is a Web browser, so no need for special software or wine to run Windows programs. Would preferably like something that is low maintenance so I don't have to be constant tech support for them (apart from the initial install and setup). Thanks for any suggestions.

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[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I know how this sounds, but (rolling) openSUSE.

I have my parents and granparents on Tumbleweed, but I update it manually when I visit.

I set them with a big macos style dock at the bottom of the screen and that's all they need tbh (Firefox, Kmail, Office, Signal, photo gallery ... that's it).
Never had any issues, but can't complain much about Debian & Fedora either (I had them on Debian for like a decade, less than a year on Fedora, I think now 4 years on Tumbleweed), it's just that it was a pain for me to upgrade them when the time came, so I wanted a rolling distro.

However, if I ever have to set them up with a new PC (instead of constantly upgrading their rigs with old parts from my PCs), I'll try opensuse.org/Aeon. Seems low maintenance & low extra config for my usecase.