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Distro and/or config for elderly person (feddit.org)

submitted 2 months ago by far_university190@feddit.org to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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Hello, i have task to install a system for elderly person without much technical knowlegde (never used pc, no windows or mac).

They need text processing, calculator and maybe spreadsheet.

Want to disable anything else (setting panel, file browser, web browser, launcher, dock, terminal, login select, etc.) that not needed, all important thing only from desktop. Should not be able to go anywhere where not know what to do. But not permanent, might need to fix machine if ever break.

Is there distro or config i can work off? Or need to start from scratch? What program you recommend?

Thank you for any answer or recommendation

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[–] markstos@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (11 children)

ChromeOS Flex

https://chromeos.google/products/chromeos-flex/

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

No way. Then better use FydeOS.

Note that while ChromeOS is really really nice, beautiful and intuitive, it has like no support for running apps normally. You get Android apps and Debian in a container.

The performance sucks, you should setup unattended-upgrades.

But yeah, after that it could be great. If they never touch the terminal they cant break anything.

And while you can run Android and debian browsers (I tried Android Mull and Brave, and Debian Firefox and Brave both from their official repos), Chrome is always there and mostly the default I think.

[–] flashgnash@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Depending on use case it doesn't sound like that'd be an issue. I used one of the like 3rd generation Chromebooks for school, I had to rdp for visual studio and Photoshop but it was perfect for everything else

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