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What's a popular rolling release distro that's fairly stable, but also modern, for my dad's computer? He just wants a good balance of "things won't break" and "things will get updated". Ubuntu is ok, but maybe pop!OS or something else is better for him?
What's a popular rolling release distro that's fairly stable, but also modern, for my dad's computer? He just wants a good balance of "things won't break" and "things will get updated". Ubuntu is ok, but maybe pop!OS or something else is better for him?
If so, then Manjaro.
If not, I always say:
From Windows? > Mint.
From MacOS? > Ubuntu.
The answer is almost always one of those two for non-technical people.
Who is "we?" How is that team selected? Are their decisions public? What is the review or appeal process like?
What's a popular rolling release distro that's fairly stable, but also modern, for my dad's computer? He just wants a good balance of "things won't break" and "things will get updated". Ubuntu is ok, but maybe pop!OS or something else is better for him?
Another person mentioned Ubuntu if coming from Mac. I haven’t considered it before but they’re probably right.
I was using Mac at home, but Windows at work. So moving to Mint was easy.
Ubuntu was OK on high performance hardware but when they introduced snaps nothing worked so I moved to Mint.
HTH
Elementary has been around for a long time. From what I recall, it tries to ape the Mac style on Linux the same way that KDE has been accused of aping Windows. The original founder (Cassidy James Blaede) is now a designer for GNOME: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJq8Cq9LixE I wonder why this is on the front page today.
It's a weird world where KDE out of the box is more usable than Windows.
I gave the wrong laptop to my mother a few months back and she only told me when she finished banking that the windows menu looked funny (Like the hacker one you put on the family computer when you were 12.) it was KDE. Usually she asks for help at least once on windows for getting the wifi connected.
The year of desktop Linux was 5 years ago and we didn't even notice.
What's a popular rolling release distro that's fairly stable, but also modern, for my dad's computer? He just wants a good balance of "things won't break" and "things will get updated". Ubuntu is ok, but maybe pop!OS or something else is better for him?
openSUSE Tumbleweed sounds like it would fit the bill. It's both rolling and has the benefit of having btrfs/snapper support baked in by default, so it's super easy to roll back anything if it breaks.