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
    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