My brother is 12 and just like other people of his age he can’t use a computer properly because he is only familiar with mobile devices and dumbed-down computers

I recently dual-booted Fedora KDE and Windows 10 on his laptop. Showed him Discovery and told him, “This is the app store. Everything you’ll ever need is here, and if you can’t find something just tell me and I’ll add it there”. I also set up bottles telling him “Your non-steam games are here”. He installed Steam and other apps himself

I guess he is a better Linux user than Linus Sebastian since he installed Steam without breaking his OS…

The tech support questions and stuff like “Can you install this for me?” or “Is this a virus?” dropped to zero. He only asks me things like “What was the name of PowerPoint for Linux” once in a while

After a week I have hardly ever seen my brother use Windows. He says Fedora is “like iOS” and he absolutely loved it

I use Arch and he keeps telling me “Why are you doing that nerdy terminal stuff just use Fedora”. He also keeps explaining to me why Fedora better than my “nerd OS”

  • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is great lol. When my friend tried Linux Mint he had to go into the terminal to install Brave, as they don’t just provide a .DEB like other browsers do. Maybe I should recommend Fedora to him as well.

      • tikitaki@kbin.social
        12·
        1 year ago

        i find the fall from grace amusing. i’ve been hating on them for years just because they’re a chrome derivative. now they do some telemetry and all of a sudden everyone hates them.

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
        21·
        1 year ago

        I use Vivaldi (and Firefox if a site doesn’t work in Vivaldi) which is part of that “other browsers” bracket so I’m good lol.

          • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
            3·
            1 year ago

            Because I need tab organisation to stop my arse from overflowing with tabs and getting overwhelmed, which Vivaldi does nicely with workspaces and Firefox can’t really do at all.

            • tikitaki@kbin.social
              5·
              1 year ago

              I looked it up and while Firefox has most of the tab features Vivaldi does (tab pinning, tab duplication, moving tabs, muting tabs) it doesn’t have tab stacking, which was novel to me

              there are a couple firefox addons that more or less replicate this feature in different forms from some brief research

              for example tree style tabs is a popular addon

              i also found tab stack and simple tab groups although they do not look as streamlined as vivaldi

              regardless, thanks for the info. i’m going to try out tree style tabs because it seems like a useful feature for me too that i hadn’t considered before

    • NormalC@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      You can find the flatpak version of Brave in the Mint software center. Many package maintainers don’t allocate space for multiple web browser forks because they take a very long time to compile and update frequently (or have nonfree components like Vivaldi) so flatpaks are your best option.

      • Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi
        1·
        1 year ago

        I knew Fedora had Flatpak baked in but didn’t know Linux Mint had it. I know they’ve got a hatred for Snaps, though lol. Thanks for the explanation!