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i almost went with aurora here. in fact it’s still on the other pc i was also testing on, sitting on a shelf unused the last several months. but after trying out pretty much everything i could get my hands on… i ended up back ‘home’, on debian. where i started ~ 30 years ago.

solus os (independent ‘semi rolling’) and ultramarine (fedora based) were two other non-debian based ones on my short list. i already have a manjaro desktop so it wasn’t on my list at all… i already knew i didn’t want it on this box.

alma and rocky are the new ‘clones’ of rhel that were spawned from the death of centos when redhat radically changed its mission in ~ 2020-21. they have most the pros and cons of running rhel itself.

it used to be that… the ‘new’ one is debian trixie-based. runs plasma but there’s also a ‘lite’ spin that uses lxqt

it’s missing the gig of ram usage and thrashing the storage device for the entire duration.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-session-manager/

boss has this on her pc. put it on after she did accidentally “lose” all her tabs once (she keeps many open and restores session on re-launch). she hasn’t since. and it’s been years.

updates, sure. let discover or gnome software do 'em.

my debian won’t break the system.

to install, though? i’d rather see exactly what’s going on. i don’t always want to bring in every tom, dick and recommend. i use aptitude.

just wait a few more years and the traditional cold weather kit won’t be needed.

all my winter coats, mittens, gloves, scarves, and boots. all completely unused the last two winters… except for one light knit hat… the two winters before that, same-except i wore gloves a couple times.

and when yer nekkid, the mosquitoes have a bigger target.

mosquitoes are not a problem in the winter.

this got me wondering if anyone ever submitted a résumé to cvs on a roll of receipt paper.

yup. works very well. been using it whenever an image fails to boot properly on my multiboot usb…

an image viewer with the feature set and workflow of irfanview on windows.

you’re on the right track, i think, but not bazzite–that carries a lot of extra stuff that isn’t necessary here. just ordinary fedora silverblue. clean up the app grid or put dash-to-dock on it and put the few launchers they need down on that. gnome is actually a good desktop for basic users that just need to run one or a few applications. updates are somewhat frequent but should be almost entirely automatic.

i have a few users like your parents on endless os, which is similar to silverblue, just based on an in-house immutable debian instead of silverblue’s fedora base. i rarely ever hear from them, it ‘just works’. i also have it at home, it’s currently my only linux desktop there (i do most my ‘work’ at the office, home is just doom-scrolling and media for the most part these days). updates are less frequent but endless is switching to a gnome os base with the next major version. that will probably increase the frequency of updates a bit compared to their older debian base. that upgrade to v7 should be mostly invisible to the user, they’ve done a good job in the past with upgrades.

it was my mom who ‘taught’ me how to skip ads on tv. we had one of the earliest betamax when i was a kid, she recorded everything she watched and always fast-forwarded through the commercials. that first vcr had dials for channel changing and could only do one scheduled recording… but it was used a lot

… my blocking ads is a courtesy so you don’t waste your time, cpu cycles, and bandwidth on serving them to me.

many were there first, long before microsoft bought the site. but now? yea. why tf are people still using it.

life: “it looks like you have some free time, how about a few ‘unforeseen circumstances’ to liven things up a bit?”

debian stable misses a lot of the ‘fun’.

like we’re seeing with Android’s “Desktop mode”.

apple is already in on this game, as well.

every day i use windows less than the day before. i still ‘need’ it for some things, including work, but on a personal level it’s almost entirely linux lately… but it’s been a three decade journey.

“just watch my video to learn how to fix your problem of not being able to watch videos”