I wouldn’t argue.

Ahhhh, that’s so nice! I just got my second NVME. It’s a new world.

I really liked Peppermint’s installer, back when I used it. I think it was Calamares then? It handled existing partitions well, and was easy to understand.

I think OpenSUSE, at least, has changed/improved the installer since the last time I used it. It remains to be seen whether it’ll be easier to handle my existing partitions or just more arcane, since I’ll have no previous experience, even vague memories.

I guess that’s the difference. I don’t tend to format mine often, if ever.

It is amazing that you can buy a TB drive these days, especially at the size they are. And amazing you can fill one up.

It’s good to keep that sense of wonder, IMO.

I agree. I’ve never had one stop working.

Every time I reinstall, it takes me a while to remember how I did it last time.

Have you tried asking on the Peppermint forums? People there might be more familiar with the specifics of the distro.

Same.

Is it? I’ve never used it on a tablet, tbh.

I use Cosmic sometimes, and I like it, but it’s a work in progress. Things don’t always work right, or they change from one update to another. An older person might want something more predictable.

XFCE is nice. Uncomplicated and light on resource usage, but has all the options you’d expect.

You aren’t. My bf has constant problems with Windows that he barely knows how to diagnose (not that he isn’t knowledgeable about computers, the problems are just…opaque.) He doesn’t seem to perceive them as being related to Windows, though. I think that might be what’s going on with a lot of people.

It depends on what file manager you use. In many, you can turn off thumbnail generation if you believe this might happen to you.

I agree. I’ve been using it for years, since I moved away from Kindle. I only wish it would support socks5 proxy so I could use Tor for metadata downloads from Google or Amazon.

I believe Tumbleweed is available for Pinephone.

I’ve never used anything but systemd. I feel fine about it, but I think I’d feel the same way about not using it.

This is what I did. I narrowed down the distros I was looking at to about 5 that I thought might meet my needs, and made a live usb for each one, then used it as I would my regular system for a couple days. Anything that didn’t work right got eliminated, and I picked the one I liked best out of the ones where everything worked.

If he’s keeping Windows to begin with, then logically he may still update it. It’s helpful to know that it might mess up his Linux installation.

Installing an iso from a usb drive and installing an iso after mounting it as a virtual drive seem like they involve roughly the same level of technical skill to me. Booting from cd or usb was a routine school or business activity for decades. Mounting an iso as a drive has been built into Windows for a much shorter period of time. The last time I used Windows, you needed third party software for that. I would bet on a random person off the street to be able to do the first one more reliably than the second. But, more installation options are always better.