[OT] Granny-friendly Linux Distros?

Timon Gehr timon.gehr at gmx.ch
Tue May 7 11:42:00 UTC 2019


On 07.05.19 07:20, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 5/6/2019 5:15 PM, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Am I the only one who thinks this is completely ridiculous, and a shame
>> to our industry, that users have to put up with this kind of nonsense?
> 
> Heck, it would be so much better if it installed updated on shutdown, 
> not startup!
> 
> The same goes for Ubuntu Linux, btw.

(It is not really the same, because the system allows you to change its 
behavior.)

> When I log into Ubuntu, I want to 
> do something now, not wait for 10 minutes clicking Ok, Yes, Install, Ok, 
> ...
> 

You can disable the popup, but the default window manager is useless 
bloat anyway.

If you use e.g. i3 [1], it won't bother you.

sudo apt install i3

[1] https://i3wm.org/


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