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47 points

I don’t want my mom to be able to turn her computer into a paperweight…

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Don’t give her sudo permission then.

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How she will install anything then

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Just to be clear, the person answering Flatpaks isn’t being flippant. Any tools, editors or games that Mom wants, she can safely install by searching and clicking ‘intall’, all without enough permissions to harm her computer.

Linux, for less technical parents, is genuinely really nice, now.

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you can add sudo permissions for individual users for certain commands only; and i recommend you would do that; i.e. give her sudo permission for installing/uninstalling applications, but nothing else.

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Flatpaks

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My dad never uses anything other than a browser and an email program. I guess the file manager? I’m pretty sure he never installed anything on Mint so far.
He still needs sudo to uodate tho.

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You can give her limited sudo rights; even limit her to install and upgrade operations.

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My mom needs a computer for work, but she keeps bludgeoning people to death with it. What should I do?! Linux must have a solution for this!

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While that is possible. You do have to go out of your way to do that in ways a typical user wouldn’t.

Aside from that like others have said. Just don’t give sudo perms and have them use Flatpak.

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/j then you don’t love your mother enough to learn coding and make a mom-proof distro.

/uj oh my god I have ptsd from the one time my parents tried to switch to apple products. It lasted less than a week. Please don’t let them decide to switch to Linux and ask me things.

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Use an easy to use immutable distro like Fedora silverblue

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