Well it was run by Maxwell.

That’s a great one! Mine was “fuck a duck! Fuck ten ducks, actually.” My friends never let me live that one down.

They would never admit to the play store malware problem.

I don’t agree that tech companies need to put up walled gardens to protect people from themselves, but ‘what scams’ is insanely disingenuous. Obviously the scams where people, usually elderly, are walked through the process of enabling third party apps so the scammer, posing as a bank or other trusted institution, can then install malicious apps. If you’ve really never heard of that then I think you need to step outside of your bubble a bit more.

One day wait period to enable installing third party apps. Afterwards no extra wait time or verification.

Headline is a little misleading. There is a one day waiting period when you enable installing third party applications. After that you can install them indefinitely. It’s to stop active scams. I agree it’s BS, but it’s a lot less BS than I was expecting and what the headline/comments are making it out to be.

I feel like allowing users to access dev mode played a large part in this as well. Without the option surely it would have been cracked sooner.
Which is a great lesson in and of itself for tech companies willing to listen.

I thought it was only the release version of the console that was vulnerable. Was there a breakthrough in the last two days?

They are slaves to trends and haven’t thought about it even a little bit?

Greatest excuse of all time.

I believe that’s the plan for the future, too. Conglomo A owns all the RAM, but we can rent access.

Which devices, if I may ask? I’m curious under which circumstances I should definitely not recommend it.

Yes. I’ve been switching non-tech people to Linux for 17 years. Ubuntu used to be the go to, but it has a steep learning curve for the average user, sucks, and has gotten consistently worse. Everyone eats their shit over Mint, and Cinnamon is nice, but I’d still field a lot of complaints. Pop! OS is awesome, but still only 90% of the way there (and also people hate the name).
Bazzite is feature complete, requires zero tinkering on their end or mine, and ‘just works’ the way people expect a modern desktop OS to. I’ve converted just under a dozen people and several of my personal machines and haven’t had an issue yet. So yes, I would recommend a young, gaming focused distribution to a non-tech person. Isn’t Steam OS also young and gaming focused? And yet it’s arguable that most non-tech people start their Linux journey there. bazzite is just an improvement on Steam OS. So yeah, I like it. I don’t understand all the ire in this thread for my answer to the question. Everyone has their opinion, I have field research.

People keep saying this but I’ve not had a single solitary issue getting Bazzite working on a myriad of older and newer devices.

I didn’t realize OP’s question was ‘What desktop operating system would you recommend to Scott’s dad?’ I guess I need new glasses.

What you’re missing is that the question was what would you recommend to the average user.

Bazzite. Fedora + drivers + immutable + gaming works out of the box.