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Distro suggestions for grandparents?
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I know how this sounds, but (rolling) openSUSE.
I have my parents and granparents on Tumbleweed, but I update it manually when I visit.
I set them with a big macos style dock at the bottom of the screen and that's all they need tbh (Firefox, Kmail, Office, Signal, photo gallery ... that's it).
Never had any issues, but can't complain much about Debian & Fedora either (I had them on Debian for like a decade, less than a year on Fedora, I think now 4 years on Tumbleweed), it's just that it was a pain for me to upgrade them when the time came, so I wanted a rolling distro.
However, if I ever have to set them up with a new PC (instead of constantly upgrading their rigs with old parts from my PCs), I'll try opensuse.org/Aeon. Seems low maintenance & low extra config for my usecase.