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by lenerdenator10 hours ago |
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upvoteby arcfour10 hours ago|
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1. It's probably not hard to put her Chrome back where it was and set her homepage to Facebook.

2. These users wouldn't be the people referred to by the article though, right?

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upvoteby sndgndgndgndy3 hours ago|
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Someone who is 75 years old today was 49 years old at the peak of the dotcom craze, and is probably a lot more computer literate than you're giving them credit for. What you're saying might have been true 20 years ago, but it isn't today.
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upvoteby mafuy1 hours ago|
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Oh no. Not at all. My mother would say "You moved my facebook" when she could not find Chrome. These people exist.
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upvoteby wpm7 hours ago|
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Fedora is quite capable of doing absolutely nothing but opening Chrome and going to Facebook.
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upvoteby hurtigioll7 hours ago|
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can you lock fedora down such that a few bad clicks dont disable the desktop manager and boots it into the terminal?

this is the real problem with Linux on the desktop for non-power users

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upvoteby SXX7 hours ago|
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If you talking of users who dont install their own software and just use browser only then Linux was better for them for decade.

Now you can even install something with read-only system partition with snapshots so not even a power outage can corrupt anything.

For non-power users who do need to install something it was never perfect, but now these immutable distributions are here. They have their own downsides though.

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upvoteby opan7 hours ago|
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Guessing this is just a hypothetical, but if you really can do that (disable the DM via the GUI by accident), I'd be curious. If you told me to do that on purpose, my first instinct would be to uninstall the package.
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upvoteby blahlabs7 hours ago|
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Which few bad clicks would put a fedora install in that state?
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upvoteby SXX7 hours ago|
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If you do have permissions to install packages you can end up with a system in messed up state pretty easily.

1 - Enable wrong ROMFusion because you need these damn video codecs for VLC. I have like 20 years of Linux experience and I still messe up Fedora in 2025 trying to make video work.

2 - Just forget that big update going in background and shutdown system when not appropriate. Boom. On Windows its just much harder to accidentally do it.

Only solution is really distros with immutable root and snapshots.

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upvoteby imp0cat7 hours ago|
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I guess you could use something like Fedora Silverblue if you feel like doing some initial explaining.
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