> I’m curious if your dad installs much software? Surprisingly, he actually does. This is in large part because this is WAY easier in Linux than anywhere else

> I’m curious if your dad installs much software? Surprisingly, he actually does. This is in large part because this is WAY easier in Linux than anywhere else, because they've been following the "curated marketplace" model (like iOS and Android) for like, a decade (without the restrictions on other modes of install, obviously: Linux systems have an incentive to be user-friendly, but not anti-user the way Apple does). He was in the menu and found the "Software Hub" or whatever Mint calls it, and spends time randomly looking around at stuff. On Windows, he would oscillate between being too paranoid about viruses to go around installing random .exes to being _not paranoid enough and actually installing a virus_ haha.