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I love to install Atomic distributions for less technically savvy people. Reducing the conflict and issue potential.
If we're talking email and docs and stuff, doesn't it make sense to install something like Debian, properly set it up and leave it be?
Sounds like an option that really really wouldn't ever bork.
That'd work, too. But doing that I still had to occasionally/rarely fix my relatives laptops. I think after some of the major updates and the stupid Brother printer drivers messed up and needed manual intervention. But Debian is pretty stable. But with that said, it's not the only option. I can imagine an atomic distro doing a good job, too. And being low maintenance, or at least fail in a way my mom could handle. I mean that's how some modern devices work anyways. Be atomic, have A/B updates...
Printer drivers are pain indeed. Had some trouble installing drivers for an obscure Brother printer myself, and that's with AUR at hand (I currently run Manjaro, an Arch derivative, on my main PC, and Debian on laptop)
Atomic distributions have read only filesystems for nearly anything but /home, it makes it way more reliant against loss of power then just a normal Debian. I had a few people with distributions that broke due to filesystems corruption.
Fair enough
It is more complex not less. Maybe one day it will be hassle free but that day isn't right now
Never had any issues, everything just works for me.