What distros do you install on your mom’s, sister’s, buddy’s, etc machines?
My go-to has usually been Mint, but I wonder if there is a better set and forget, easily understood distro to install on the computers of those who will rely on you for support.
atomic distros would probably be a good option, but it seems that same disk dual boot is a no no, and that can be a deal breaker.
I’m thinlink QoL, for me, that is.
I would go with Aurora or Fedora Kinoite. Atomic + KDE is unbreakable and easy for Windows casuals.
The only thing I dislike about Aurora is the illustrations baked into the distro. SDDM & Bazaar have them and can’t be changed. But it’s a freaking awesome distro.
I use it daily on my work laptop through an external USBC M2 NVME caddy. Today I had to move to a new work laptop and I just plugged it to the new one and that was it, my OS and all my stuff on my new work laptop in just a few seconds. No downtime. No drivers to update. Nothing.
The laptops have their factory Windows untouched. No warranty is void. IT is happy and I get to use Linux at work.
Plus, I can plug the drive to my home desktop PC running Bazzite and open files as if it was a regular thumbdrive.
This setup makes me so happy.