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[–] ranzispa@mander.xyz 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That was true 15 years ago. There are now plenty distributions focused towards new users. And to be fair standard distributions have become very user friendly.

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

I’m a Fedora user myself. It’s pretty well built but I’ve had a lot of issues especially with the Wayland stuff. That’s getting better for sure but Ubuntu has the type of tech support that older people are used to.

It’s probably still the most popular distro, still today, which means there are going to be more resources for them.

If my mom has to open the terminal, she’s going to give up and go back to windows.