• JuxtaposedJaguar@lemmy.ml
          3·
          17 hours ago

          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!

        • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
          46·
          1 day ago

          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.

          • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            1·
            3 hours ago

            Awesome

            If you wanna put your qualitative hat on: how much better is today’s easiest distro than Mint was circa 2010?

        • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
          19·
          1 day ago

          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.

        • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
          13·
          1 day ago

          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.

        • esa@discuss.tchncs.de
          121·
          1 day ago

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

    • LinyosT@sopuli.xyz
      17·
      1 day ago

      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.