I’ve faced far more issues with relatives with Macs than when they had Linux.

The key with Linux was giving them an LTS Ubuntu but not messing with it at all.

The problem with macOS recently has been that it keeps changing how things work which would result in the relatives messing around and messing up the system.

Ubuntu has been pretty rock solid and reliable, while not changing anything drastically enough to lead them to try and mess with it.

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wl 3 hours ago | parent [-]

I recently had an experience with a family member's Ubuntu LTS machine where it was stuck on an old release, /etc/apt/sources.list needed to be edited because of Ubuntu's obnoxious habit of breaking old repositories, and then I needed to debug apt issues to get do-release-upgrade to actually work.

The Macs and iPads have their own problems, but nothing like that.

	▲	imp0cat 3 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		But how old exactly? https://ubuntu.com/about/release-cycle The 16.04 is still supported and it was released in 2016! So it must have been an even older system, right?
	▲	fragmede 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Eh. You just install codex or Claude code and tell it to fix it for you.