CrocodilloBombardino

Whatever you personally think about these features, you’ll never convince the general public to do without them. We need widespread linux phone adoption as table stakes to affect our mobile world.

Back up your music data to an external & a cloud backup. Then the OS matters less.

What kinds of beginner guides do you think would have helped you get most things done? (genuine question - trying to help documentation writers understand new user issues)

That’s hard. Another solution, if it’s a laptop, is to have him mail it to you. Mailing a computer internationally 2 ways (a) will take a long time and (b) requires very, very good packing

Maybe you can send him an appimage of one? Those are easy to install. Then connect to his computer and update it

It might be easier to install a remote administration program on his computer and just do these things for him.

I’d say that it’s on developers to try. It will take some learning, but that’s just part of developing the capacity

I haven’t been a mint user for a while, but the fact that the mint folks specifically release MATE/XFCE versions is a good sign that they are tested for compatibility. You can try those versions on liveusb, too.

I’m guessing here, but the “less terminal needed” parts of Mint are probably specific tools and GUI settings managers they have put together to be more user friendly. if you search something like [name of Mint settings manager or tool] XFCE compatible, you’ll likely get an explanation. You might want to check out their Matrix chat room with specific questions: https://app.element.io/#/room/#linuxmint-space:matrix.org

Mint comes with a few desktop environment/window manager options: https://www.linuxmint.com/download_all.php Cinnamon, MATE, and XFCE. It’s also capable of running KDE and basically any other option, you just have to install it in a slightly more manual way.

I think mine was gentoo, waaaay back in the day. It didn’t go great lol.

I’m loving opensuse rn though!

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