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  • smeg@feddit.uktoLinux@lemmy.ml•Easiest distro for elderly parentEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You could try Aurora, it’s made by the same people as Bazzite but with a general (or developer) focus instead of a gamer focus, and while it’s not LTS I think it updates less rapidly than Bazzite.

    If your user is really tech un-savvy though, I’d just go with ChromeOS Flex. For all their (many) faults Google do at least produce a simple all-in-one experience, and I’d rather my elderly relative use Chrome’s password manager than no password manager at all.

  • smeg@feddit.ukOPtoLinux@lemmy.ml•Dual-boot questions (but not about Windows)English
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    3 months ago

    You say Windows was on a separate drive, but then you talk about dual booting. Do you mean that Windows was on another partition on a shared drive, or do you have two separate hard drives?

    I assumed dual booting just means having multiple OSs installed, does it specifically mean having them on the same disk? I have separate disks, so hopefully no need for partitioning shenanigans.

    What problem are you trying to solve?

    Partly redundancy, if I mess up one then I’ve still got the other; partly for supporting people, I’ve set up non-techies on both and I want to be able to load up the same system myself when I need to help them.