Post #4138969
2026-07-27 12:50 UTC
@stormbringer@noauthority.social Well I'm sure it can be set up with any distro using a cronjob or similar.
But I'm not sure I trust the error handling and recovery paths unless it's officially supported.
For example Linux Mint lets you easily enable automatic updates in the manager with a checkbox and has prime support for timeshift in case recovery would be needed as both belong to their Xapps project.
It's why I'm leaning towards Mint or Zorin. I don't think I'd trust pacman-offline to keep working for 9 months without me being able to touch it
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@keisatsu@infosec.exchange 2026-07-27 14:20
@quad@akko.quad.moe @stormbringer@noauthority.social yeah I'd probably put Mint or plain vanilla Debian stable on it. Never tried Zorin tho. I'd say that the distro is probably not too important, whatever you feel most comfortable managing for him. I'd focus on making sure his browser autoupdates, maybe run it as a flatpak.