Insert xkcd about standards. I know. I know.
Here’s the thought. What if we made a distro called Doors as a replacement for windows, but don’t call it a distro? We don’t even call it Linux. We just called it Doors.
The most pedantic among us will say something like it’s GNU/Linux/Doors, but regular folks would, and currently do, ignore that person. We just praise the merits of Doors and they jump out the window(s)
Thoughts?
P.S. I’ve been in the process of migrating my parents for some time now. We are at the last step now that I’ve set up Nextcloud. It didn’t take my folks long to understand the ethical cataclysm that is windows/microsoft, but the fear of change, both to something foreign in nature and use, kept them back for a long time. I want to continue a conversation we often have around a critical topic. Perhaps in an unusual direction.
Fedora GNOME is already this. And unlike Mint KDE, it actually looks like a friendly modern OS.
Great for Mac users, but too dissimilar to windows UI
Both me and my grandma switched to it from Windows 10 with no issues.
It feels too much like Mac for my liking
Personal preference is fair enough
That’s just Ubuntu, including their marketing strategy towards enterprise clients for desktop. (Without the pun in the name of course)
We have that already, it’s called Linux Mint.
Don’t overthink it.
Right—just what I was about to say.
If you ever have to open a command prompt, you’ve already lost them.
I just set up a new computer that was deemed unworthy of Windows 11 on Linux Mint. I don’t believe I opened the terminal at all, except to do ssh-keygen stuff for my server, which I would assume you skip on grandma’s computer.
The wifi, wireless printer, etc all just worked.
Have you used windows recently? Microsoft doesnt bother implementing anything, the last 30% of the product is controlled by pwsh cmdlets. I spend just as much time in the terminal on Windows as I do on Linux
Bazzite
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