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What desktop operating system would you recommend to the average user? (infosec.pub)

submitted 4 days ago by Cantaloupe877@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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Say a friend is looking for a new system, and said person is not particularly savvy with technology, what system would you point them toward?

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[–] hikaru755@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yes.

In my Linux experience so far, Bazzite is the first time things have actually just worked out of the box and I haven't had to fix a single weird issue
It's immutable with atomic updates, so much lower likelihood of the base system getting messed up, and it's super easy to roll back to previous versions if something still manages to go wrong
Updates happen fully automatically in the background, you don't even notice it
You don't ever need to touch the terminal in normal usage. Everything is set up so that you can find any software a normie would need through the built-in app store. Flatpaks are great
If you object to the gaming focus, there's a variant that's just for regular desktop use and doesn't have the gaming stuff preinstalled, but otherwise comes with all the same benefits

The one thing I'll give you is that it's a young distro and hasn't proven itself to be reliable and still available in the long term, but honestly, given all the other benefits, I'll take that chance