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It's awesome for software devs, sys admins, tinkerers. But that's it. Most distros still have too many issues for me to recommend it to every Windows user.
No, Linux is also great for tech illiterate people who just need a browser and e-mail. It's only hard for people who think they know computers but really only know some Windows
I tend to agree. but how do you automatize updates? tech illiterate people won't open the shell, and apt upgrade.
with some distros like mint and opensuse there's a paved way to set this up with a gui, but even that is just small updates. what will the user do with major distribution upgrades?
Most distros have automated updates, or ask to update on power-off. Debian and all derivatives do. As for major updates, I do those for my tech illiterate family. It's not like they can do that themselves, but they wouldn't be able to upgrade Windows themselves either.
wasn't that happening automatically since 7?