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Is this a decent OS to move users off Win too that I won't have to do a lot of remote maintenance on? I have a few varied OS's installed on machines around and Cinnamon I have found to look/feel a lot like Windows 7 which would benefit the learning curve for family/friends looking or needing to find an OS to install on a machine that isn't newer.

Curious if anyone has used this, and if so if it is a good fit for those 60+ aged family members and such. They have all used Windows for work at least a decent amount, so keeping things similar is always good. A decent App Store would be nice though. I hated the default store in Pop_OS.

If I could say do updates and reboot every once in awhile and you should be fine it'd be great. Remoting in with RustDesk and sudo Apt Update/Upgrade being all that is needed also would be great, but you know how that goes. Someone will break something, and I just want something intuitive enough that they won't do it often.

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[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

I like Bunsen labs for this. I installed it on a 1 gb ram pentium m laptop and it was pretty good. Idled at 300 mb iirc. Only downside is that it uses openbox as a window manager so if that's not your thing idk.

Has a decent bit of GUI tools

this post was submitted on 28 May 2025
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