I need to install an OS for someone whose first impulse upon seeing a screen is to touch it, because they are young and their first assumption is a touchscreen.

They know their way around Windows and Windows is probably tought to them at school, so Windows might actually be the smart move… but I fucking hate it.

Is ZorinOS or similar polished enough that I can leave it to someone whose tech literacy is centered around Roblox, TikTok and evading parental locks? I don’t want to normalize the Windows-bullshit. But I don’t want their first Linux-experience to be frustrating.

  • superkret@feddit.org
    2·
    3 months ago

    I meant not being able to rummage around in /etc .
    Since it is read-only, you always have to copy a config file into your home/user/.config/… before you can edit it.

    • HayadSont@discuss.online
      1·
      3 months ago

      Sorry, I think there’s a misunderstanding.

      First of all, thank you for clarifying what you meant. I’m not native, so I haven’t seen “rummage” being used within that context. And while a LLM did (at least an attempt to) provide its meaning, it didn’t make sense… by which we have arrived at the misunderstanding.

      Since it is read-only

      Yes, for Fedora Atomic, (most of) /usr is read-only. Perhaps this also applies to some other folders of /, however this doesn’t apply to /etc as it’s not read-only; therefore, you can actually change its content. At best, you’d have to go sudo (or fill the credentials through polkit’s window); but that’s all. This part isn’t different from how it’s over on (traditional) Fedora. Compared to its non-Atomic variant, however, we do find the following changes regarding /etc:

      • The changes you apply to /etc are being kept track of. You can access these through ostree admin config-diff.
      • And, related to the previous, a pristine copy of /etc is kept at /usr/etc. And, that one, is actually read-only.

      So…, the following step, i.e.

      you always have to copy a config file into your home/user/.config/… before you can edit it.

      Isn’t required or anything. Heck, it’s the first time (after three years of Fedora Atomic) that I’ve seen something like that being mentioned within this context.