I’m looking for something my sister can use, but I don’t want her to face trouble when needing to change major releases, like debian or ubuntu do. So I’m thinking a rolling release distro could be of great help for this.

Being as vanilla as possible is a nice to have.

Ideally, she shouldn’t be dealing with config files though. So even though Arch or some derivatives like Manjaro would fit, they require users to investigate for the proper configurations and such, and as mentioned, she’s a non tech person. If there would be something Arch based, but having safe configs by default, and pretty much requiring to keep updating the SW often, that sounds fine, but I’m not aware of any. Having a graphical SW updater/upgrader should be required as well…

It shouldn’t matter much, but I believe KDE would be the best DE option for her, offering what she might need to feel like windows.

I was thinking of KDE Neon, but I’m not sure how ubuntu major releases are handled, neither how it is for a non tech person to go and add SW, not officially covered by KDE repos, neither if its “plasma discover”, or its upgrade on the air tool works for other things, rather than just KDE stuff upgrades… Maybe kubuntu might as well be an option, but major upgrades might be as user involved as the ubuntu ones…

If you’re wondering, I’m using Artix, and I 've used for quite some time before, Arch, Debian (unstable) and SourceMage. I’m honestly not familiar with something that might help my sister move from windows. She once told me someone helped her try ubuntu, but she didn’t feel comfortable with it… Any suggestions are welcome.

  • je_vv@lemmy.mlOP
    2·
    4 years ago

    Could someone just live with what the distro offers as configs? Both, functionally, and safely? On Arch and Artix, to make things work, usually configs are required to be modified, and even further if one needs more secure/safe options… I’m wondering if that’s not the same on Manjaro… Thanks !

    • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
      4·
      4 years ago

      Manjaro works out of the box, there’s no need to do any extra config, its a very beginner friendly distro.

    • Aglow@lemmy.ml
      3·
      4 years ago

      I picked Manjaro Plasma KDE as my first distro and I’m pretty sure it doesn’t require any tweaking. If your sister is in fact not a tech person, then she won’t do any tweaking at all - it already has great pacman GUI, and almost every app a casual user would need: browser, office, mail client, steam and cantata.