If the user really wants a new browser, Flatpak is always an option.

Gotta tiptoe to the “murder” word on the euphemism treadmill first.

Only gamers will get that joke

-Jensen Huang, Computex, May 29, 2023

I thought NixOS was the new “btw” distro.

Nah nah, HyperCard was the Apple shit.

I'll second the Pop!_OS recommendation that others have been posting. Don't get me wrong, Linux Mint is great, though I personally prefer Linux Mint Debian Edition over the Ubuntu-based one, but I think Pop!_OS is just as easy to use while presenting a different look & feel. Pop tends to support newer hardware as well: despite being stuck on an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS base until Cosmic is finished, System76 releases new kernels to support the hardware they sell. They're currently running kernel version 6.6.6, as opposed to Ubuntu's 6.2.0 (I think -- that's what server's on, at least).

I gave my wife, who "hates computers," a laptop running Pop!_OS when her Windows 10 one failed and, apart from the standard new PC complaints, I haven't heard anything Linux-specific. She runs two businesses on the thing; the only changes I made to the standard Pop!_OS software were to replace LibreOffice with OnlyOffice, and to replace Geary with Thunderbird.

It would be if nazis were capable of valor. This is just a lying Florida man who switched from bath salts to meth a few years back and tried to take it to the bank.

Cheaper to buy a hat and eyepatch than it is to pay for all these streaming services…

I’ve never heard that phrase before but it sounds like something I can use to annoy the piss out of my kids and their friends. Kind of like yeet, rizz, or cap. Especially if I use it wrong intentionally.

I can’t get used to vanilla GNOME. First things I always install are Dash to Panel, ArcMenu, Caffeine, AppIndicator support, and Pop Shell. It’s basically Cinnamon with a tiling/stacking toggle and without the need for a “restart if it crashes” setting.

Nextcloud. You can set up a self-hosted instance, put it in a cloud provider's environment, or use their Enterprise offering, depending on your level of expertise/budget.

In my opinion, the most significant change is the inclusion of nonfree firmware on the ISO, the detection of hardware that works well with that firmware during the installation process, and the suggestion to use that firmware. I also don't recall having Cinnamon as a DE option in 11, but I could be wrong about that because it's been a while since I last installed that version with a GUI.

Other than that, even though it falls under the "software updates" umbrella, I think the inclusion of a newer Flatpak runtime in the Bookworm repos is great news. Makes it a lot easier to use the latest version of Firefox, for example, without having to add other repos (for either Firefox or Flatpak).