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silly baby 🥰

huh, as far as I know, fedora act autonomously as a project, though are very much bankrolled by ibm / redhat. I wasn’t aware of the IDF support on their part. that’s really upsetting, and good to know, thank you.

To your other points, I think .debs will be an easier ecosystem to get to grips with, and the explicit lack of nonfree software by default (including codecs) does indeed introduce a level of friction.

As other commenters have mentioned, it would be neat if you could disable snaps on zorin in favour of flatpak, provided they’ve committed to the ubuntu route of bundling system components under that paradigm. UX wise I don’t think either experience will differ too much, though you’ll find more first party packaging on the latter

The win10 ESU has been extended for yet another year, so you have a bit more time. Your partner sounds reasonably tech savvy. could be worth grabbing a few different distros on a ventoy drive to play around with, even though the main factor in terms of UX is often the DE.

might have a slight bias here but fedora workstation has been a reliable system for me and I’m just a dumb guy on the internet. I use it with gnome + plugins to make gnome leas daft, though the kde spin is solid.

openconnect should work with cisco anyconnect; you can theoretically connect via CLI but that may be a bit rough UX wise. You could also set her connect command up to a global hotkey in gnome or whatever, and initiate a connection via keyboard shortcut.

Office via web might be the best should for now, however.

you should be able to create bootable flash drives with dd

I’ll be honest, I’ve been pretty out of the loop and totally spaced on that. I was basing it from the general product offering (omitting base stations, high bandwidth display cable throughput, overall display specs), and super old leaks from the time where we knew it only by its codename (deckard), suggesting a much lower cost, partially modular system.

I wouldn’t be surprised if the Index remained the overall higher quality VR solution for now

Relative to what? I don’t think it’s shooting for pimax dream or even valve index price points (well, outside of the component pricing crunch)

I mean I would personally agree but I also feel for the skittish. They might also play games that don’t run at all on Linux, even even hw accelerated (gfx passthrough) VMs.

Ideally yeah to be on a secure OS after this October, which is when the Win10 ESU concludes.

There are ways to minimise the annoyances of win11 if they’re still apprehensive but you shouldn’t let them use anything that isn’t receiving regular security updates, even if it’s just for a gaming system.