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FunOS - Have any of you used this

www.zdnet.com /article/this-lean-linux-distro-can-gift-your-windows-10-pc-an-extra-5-to-10-years-of-life/

Is this a decent OS to move users off Win too that I won't have to do a lot of remote maintenance on? I have a few varied OS's installed on machines around and Cinnamon I have found to look/feel a lot like Windows 7 which would benefit the learning curve for family/friends looking or needing to find an OS to install on a machine that isn't newer.

Curious if anyone has used this, and if so if it is a good fit for those 60+ aged family members and such. They have all used Windows for work at least a decent amount, so keeping things similar is always good. A decent App Store would be nice though. I hated the default store in Pop_OS.

If I could say do updates and reboot every once in awhile and you should be fine it'd be great. Remoting in with RustDesk and sudo Apt Update/Upgrade being all that is needed also would be great, but you know how that goes. Someone will break something, and I just want something intuitive enough that they won't do it often.

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  • I don't see anything that makes it more suitable than Mint or any other distro.

    • If it's true that it uses only 250 MB of RAM as it claims, then it had advantages on old computers over Mint which uses 950 MB (htop). My mom's computer only has 2 GB of RAM for example (an old, converted-to-linux Chromebook), so we need a distro that really doesn't use much ram. Thankfully she only uses 1 tab at a time on the browser (she doesn't know how to open more), so that makes it just enough with something heavy like YT or FB, so she doesn't hit the swap and slow things down.

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