Tonight I am installing Kubuntu on the gfs machine. Once she is comfortable with that, and the support ends for our version prolly going with Debian. Going to remove her windows drive (256 or 512GB) as there is only 1 m.2 port on the board, and replace it with a 1tb.

Her needs are simple, make Logitec G13 work (works and tested on my machine for months), Make ESO and addons work (Lutris has its own installer for ESO YAY! Minion has a linux version.), and minecraft java (found in app manager).

Now, she has some knock off razor mouse with buttons under the thumb, maybe the razorx software or whatever it’s called will work on her mouse?, this may be a slight pain point. I am hoping this will work out and she will be happy with her (new) pc, we are preserving her windows as a fall back if she hates it. I have a short video lined up to teach her the linux file system. She won’t be doing anything command line, for now, except to start the G13. Gonna leave her with the dolphin file manager as it is difficult to get elevated privileges compared to nautalis(sp?) where it is a simple checkbox click. Anything else to suggest here?

I can mostly teach her what she needs to know as we go, she is a smart cookie and has picked up everything I taught her for windows and networking so far so should not be an issue for her, but if you guys have any suggestions on tutorial vids for non power users or other things I can do to make this even more seamless it would be appreciated.

Edit: Thank you all for your input, very much appreciated. I will keep monitoring for new posts

  • boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net
    5·
    19 hours ago
    1. Yes agreed, why reinstall?
    2. Dont ever use fixed partitions, that is not how you do things. One boot partition 3G or so to not run out of space, the rest with BTRFS encrypted. Or anything else in an LVM.
    3. Use virt-manager for that, dont get virtualbox. No weird kernel modules. I am curious how you share the directory, didnt get that working.
    4. Yeah, might need ungoogled chromium for them to be actual webapps as Firefox is weird
    5. THIS. People always do this and mess everything up. Use flatpak.
    6. Boring? In a sense, but that is kinda difficult to say.

    I would recommend HeliumOS with Flatpak apps. Way more stable than any package based distro

    • Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
      2·
      19 hours ago

      Use virtiofs. There’s a driver for Windows. Very fast. We use it in production with a different hypervisor and Linux VMs. Different client driver but I suppose the Windows driver should be fine too.