Post #3361835

2026-06-20 18:29 UTC

Take a look at the immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue. It would install updates automatically, and has the ability to always rollback to a working version. I haven’t used it long enough to have version upgrades tested. If I was doing that these days with my current skills, I’d install some minimal version of Arch Linux and probably would remote into it once in a while to update, or invent some simple script to do the updates unattended. Also, don’t forget there’s Chrome OS which you can install on a regular PC. (It was called Flex last time I did that for a relative.) It’s the easiest I can remember right now. That’s for situations when all they need is actually just a browser. For those cases Chrome OS shines.

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@Wfh@lemmy.zip 2026-06-20 18:58

I’ve put my dad on Bluefin (same project as Bazzite). It’s perfect. Major upgrades are the same as weekly updates. Transparent and uneventful. It’s been almost 2 years and zero major complaints. He even finally accepted to ditch his ancient MacBook Air since I installed the Affinity suite on his Linux laptop. It was his last holdover.

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@7eter@feddit.org 2026-06-20 19:32

Fedora Atomic Distros are great. I only run into minor issues with major updates in combination with Ffmpeg Codecs layered to the install. But I guess that’s a rare usecase.

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@MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2026-06-20 19:43

Take a look at the immutable distros like Fedora Silverblue Nah. The moment they want to run a exe from a desktop shortcut (and not via rightclick on the entry in the second tab of a GUI tool) or you to run a setup script, things get messy.

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@mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 2026-06-20 21:50

Also, don’t forget there’s Chrome OS No, please forget Chrome OS. Also, I’d hesitate to call it “Linux” at this point

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