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I find it a little hilarious that any distro is aimed at non-power users. The middle of the Venn diagram of “non-power user” and “will install an OS that isn’t
by rewgs 5y ago
I find it a little hilarious that any distro is aimed at non-power users. The middle of the Venn diagram of “non-power user” and “will install an OS that isn’t the one that came with their computer” must be vanishingly small.
- creata 5y agoIt looks[0][1] like they do want to be an OS comes with your computer, which is pretty exciting. [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133146 [1]: https://au.starlabs.systems/pages/laptops https://au.starlabs.systems/pages/laptops
- abdulmuhaimin 5y agoBased on how they redesign the installation process, its seem vendor-installed OS is the move here. So this might be the OS that came with the computer
- altantiprocrast 5y agoThe group is probably small, but Zorin OS is also a distro aimed at non-power users, and I installed it for my grandparents' slow computer.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoFurther, I would argue that every user is a potential power user and part of the job of personal computing software should be to be an onramp to power-user-dom.
- l-albertovich 5y agoI see that as "I set my mom up with a nice linux distro that works for her instead of driving her back to her (ransom/ad/whateveriship)ware filled windows life" So yeah, there's definitely a value IMO. In fact, I know for a fact that my mother in law has been using linux for years because they just set it up for her and installed whatever she needed to get stuff done (libreoffice, zoom, whatever).