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0 pointsrewgs4y ago0 comments

I find it a little hilarious that any distro is aimed at non-power users. The middle of the Venn diagram of “non-power user” and “will install an OS that isn’t the one that came with their computer” must be vanishingly small.

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creata4y ago

It looks[0][1] like they do want to be an OS comes with your computer, which is pretty exciting.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28133146

[1]: https://au.starlabs.systems/pages/laptops

l-albertovich4y ago

I see that as "I set my mom up with a nice linux distro that works for her instead of driving her back to her (ransom/ad/whateveriship)ware filled windows life"

So yeah, there's definitely a value IMO. In fact, I know for a fact that my mother in law has been using linux for years because they just set it up for her and installed whatever she needed to get stuff done (libreoffice, zoom, whatever).

AnIdiotOnTheNet4y ago

Further, I would argue that every user is a potential power user and part of the job of personal computing software should be to be an onramp to power-user-dom.

abdulmuhaimin4y ago

Based on how they redesign the installation process, its seem vendor-installed OS is the move here. So this might be the OS that came with the computer

altantiprocrast4y ago

The group is probably small, but Zorin OS is also a distro aimed at non-power users, and I installed it for my grandparents' slow computer.

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