KEvery time I have to set up a Windows PC, the experience gets worse. Ads, force installed apps, requiring Microsoft accounts (and i'm aware there are ways to get around these things, but it's more effort and time). I made my mother buy a Macbook so she'd quit getting malware and needing me to fix her damn Windows laptops.
AI know that the LGO couldn't run Bazzite well off an external SSD, but that was a Lenovo hardware issue.
KNobody should be booting Tails to see what desktop Linux is like.
AI install Linux for relatives, or tell them to get a Chromebook
AUsually that fixes everything lol
Byou can ventoy almost anything, but bazzite doesn't have such an image
KMy mom uses a bunch of graphic design software, so that was kind of a non-starter.
Khence, macbook
AMakes sense, I had assumed it was something like that.
AThankfully for most people, a browser + printer is all they need
Bit's a bell curve
KMy mother is also 68 years old, so it took some convincing and 2 instances of malware encrypting all her shit to get her to switch
Bthe low end and the high end can use linux
Blow end "what is 3d modeling". High end "I prefer Blender over Maya"
Bmiddle... not happy
KHonestly the biggest issue at the high end for that is 'But we NEEED CUDAAAAAA' and Nvidia+Linux being... not great
Abazzite live image are coming:SoonTM: tho right?
CHah I'm still fighting this. Between her temu addiction and having 10 different "coupon bars" malware in her browser, my mother is like a living example of that one Friends episode...
AIt's the "not quite power users but knows enough to be dangerous" that is have trouble with Linux
KImmutable Live Image?
Kseems... not needed?
AThe installer itself does suck though
KOh ugh that'd be awful
AUltimatum: Chromebook or no tech support from me 
KYeah Anaconda is pretty 
AAs much as I'm not a fan of ChromeOS, it's perfect for users that have a tendency to accidentally shoot themselves in the foot with Windows.
Kstill a vast improvement over 30+ 3.5" floppy disks back from when I was a teen installing Slackware on my 486 laptop tho
KI don't mind it, though if the US Gov't does antitrust chop up Google it'll be interesting to see what happens with ChromeOS
AChromeOS is the closest thing we have to a mainstream Linux distro
Bwhat? No, Android
KYes but I don't know how much money Google is directly making from ChromeOS and Android, I think most of the 'profit' from those is more from them funneling people towards google services/ads
A? ChromeOS runs full Linux apps, runs on the Linux kernel, chromeOS is basically a heavily sandboxed Linux distro.
Khe's saying 'android is linux'
AAhh gotcha
AAndroid doesn't run Linux apps, that eliminated it for me as a contender
BAndroid is literally a mainstream linux distro
Bit does run linux applications in a variety of ways
Keh you can proot in termux
KI did that back when I used samsung dex
AIf it's not supported by the OS vendor, I don't count it
Kto use xfce+x11+linux apps
Bhave you heard of the true scotsman?
KSamsung did support that for a bit, but backtracked on it
ANo everyday user is going to proot termux
K(Linux on Dex)
Bno TRUE scotsman would be unaware they were using Linux while using it on their phone
AYep, I know about it. Shame Google pressured Samsung into killing it
Bgoogle's gonna bring their own desktop view
KEh
ABut basically I don't count Android since it doesn't support Linux apps ootb
