Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won’t break accidentally? The set up doesn’t have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.

My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don’t want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.

  • AEHQZYXARK@awful.systems
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    5 days ago

    Oh wild, I thought “No way!”, but apparently yes way as I (Tumbleweed/KDE/Standard User) get all of this which I imagine would be disorienting to non-Linux users. Just going to Wi-Fi & Networking, not attempting to make any changes even.

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      Don’t have this issue on archlinux. I think there is a group, which if you are part of, you can change networking settings.

      [moonpie@cachyos-x8664 ~]$ groups moonpie
      sys network wheel audio kvm lp storage video users rfkill libvirt docker moonpie
      
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        The common theme with us and the complaint from Linus is openSUSE. Dunno why these groups aren’t set up as default on Tumbleweed, maybe some old and dusty security policy. This case seems to be some polkit nonsense going on, dunno why this is the default. But this is the sort of stuff a user without root password might bump into that would cause them pain.