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People who have installed Linux on their parents computer, how did it go? Which distro do you recommend? Any tips? (lemmy.zip)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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There are always stories of people installing Linux on their parents computer to provide them a more secure and stable operating system, seems interesting to share experiences.

Edit: I'm assuming that parents are okay with the changes, or do not care. Obviously do not force anyone to switch OS if they don't want to.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You know there are firefox profiles right?

cp /usr/share/applications/whatever.firefox.desktop ~/.local/share/applications/
replace firefox with firefox -p in the app launcher
if you want it, use a master password in every user account

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes I know, I have played with the options. I just wanted to set something up and get two different icons for them with nothing shared and installing two browsers seemed like the easiest way at the time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I dont know how to have 2 icons.

I mean you are forcing one to use Chromium XD which is a pain and pretty creepy (contacts Google all the time).