Wilmo

Debian might work but it will always be behind and if any performance upgrades are done at a kernel level or a DE then you won’t get them until those fixes are potentially already obsolete.

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/adding-or-removing-software-repositories-in-fedora/#_for_fedora_41_or_later_dnf_5

It’s slightly different because dnf4 to dnf5 was a major version upgrade and had some changes like that. Fortunately Fedora provides ton of documentation.

Is he even very tech savvy? Like IIRC he tried to install a Linux Desktop once. And on installing steam he went ahead with the terminal prompts that were warning him whatever weird command he did was going to nuke his desktop environment.

On Gnome with the dash to panel extension, arc menu (mint layout), desktop icons, and tray icons aka kstatus notifier icons is an incredibly compatible and in many cases better Cinnamon like experience and you have Wayland that works.

I screen share on Slack with Wayland at work every day

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You can buy second hand phones and then Google doesn’t get any more money. Easy solution.