ChromeOS

🤦‍♂️ My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.

Be careful here... There will be a learning curve, and you may end up being the tech support person if you aren't already.

Windows has gotten so bad that my family, who has been reticent about the switch since 2004, has finally given in and is swapping!

Yaaaayyyy!!! Nice one!! Congrats on pulling that off!

So far I got them to agree with ChromeOS Flex

Sorry, you what???

tbh i'd say debloated windows is much better than chromeos.. its the worst of both worlds

So the criteria is something running the Linux kernel with no concern for what the user space is and ChromeOS is fine? Kind of reminds me of the movie Uncle Buck when he said he quit smoking and switched to cigars.

Why on earth would anyone willfully install ChromeOS? I haven't followed recent developments but I've always thought of it as very limiting, not to mention just as bad in terms of privacy as a Windows install.

I give the warning before I'm handed the laptop. I've done three in the family, all Linux Mint XFCE, I never hear any complaints. Shit just works.

Why ChromeOS though? Were they already familiar with the UI and features?

I just said no. I'm not going to help you with your computers unless you install Linux on your computer. I can fix all these other dumb operating systems. But I'm not going to do things that are not in your best interest, especially when I'm one doing the tech support.

Like. I'll still love you if you're shooting up heroin but I am not gonna go buy your fucking drugs.

🎼I just said no. No. No. No. No. No. No. Fuck no. No. No. Do this. Now. No. I won't do that. Do this. Now.🎶

Just..... like the world we live in now, I only want to hang out with people that use open source. Period. End of story.

Also, phone etiquette is super important. I will not waste my time around you while you diddle with your thumbs on your phone. Also, I don't want my fucking picture taken unless I know that you have good hygiene and I'll never find myself on the interwebz.

I'm an extremist, and I have no shame. I just say no.

Our shared family PC is running Aurora. My wife has a ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 on the way and we are trying to figure out what she will be running. She’s coming from an old MacBook Pro so we are going to start with trying to find the best Gnome experience. I was originally thinking Fedora Workstation but I think the updates will get on her nerves.

Hooray, great news! Meanwhile im still hoping some of my family will do the same.

Try FydeOS if you want Google Play store and Android apps.

I tried this 15ish year ago with my parents, and the results were mixed. Windows wasn't as egregious back then, with its spying and pre-installed garbage, but it did have a tendency to accumulate bloat over time. So my parents' computer would get unusably slow after a couple years. I installed Ubuntu on their system and it solved the bloat problem. It lasted for years without slowing down. The issues they ran into were compatibility. They'd buy a new camera and the connection wouldn't work. Or their friend would send them an attachment and there'd be no default viewer for the filetype. I suspect those issues have been mostly solved, but they've moved back to Windows and are running into the same bloat problems. Now they're thinking of moving to apple.

LOL. You do you but this sounds like a nightmare to me.

edit: it's not just "becoming tech support person", but becoming the default person to blame for everything.

My wife never knew where her windows files are, so I installed Linux on her laptop, she is not happy about Linux, but happier than in windows.

Nice!