I’ve started to collect good computers that are stuck on Windows 10 that are being discarded. I want to put Linux on them and give them away to less fortunate people in need of a computer. It would be easier if user names and passwords were not part of the install process but part of the first boot after installation. What distros should I look at?

    • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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      2 个月前

      sure, then already open programs will start malfunctining left and right, because they assume they have x version of files and libraries on a path, but in the meantime it has been replaced with version y. firefox and thunderbird are especially sensitive to it, but are not the only one.

      unattended upgrades work fine on a server with relatively simple programs, but on the desktop world things are different.

      • equivocal@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        2 个月前

        Silverblue and other distros like it fix this by not changing the running system. The pending update just becomes the running system on next boot.

        • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          2 个月前

          yeah, but they use immutable system images that you can’t change even if you wanted to. KDE’s update system is integrated with a systemd component that does the installation after a reboot, I think nowadays that’s the best of both worlds

          • equivocal@lemm.eeEnglish
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            2 个月前

            That isn’t entirely true. You can change it as long as it is done via package overrides or overlays. Sure it rules out just compiling/installing something into your root unless you package it first but you can change it.

            I honestly like the fact that it effectively enforces every file in the immutable parts of the OS to be traceable back to some package.

            • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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              2 个月前

              ok that makes sense and if it is not too limiting, at least its a bit self documenting, you aready know what changes did you made. hmm maybe I should try it out someday on a spare laptop

      • porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml
        5·
        2 个月前

        Firefox hasn’t broken like that for me in years, it tells me it needs to restart because it was upgraded in the background and restores the session perfectly, usually

      • catloaf@lemm.eeEnglish
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        2 个月前

        Libraries loaded in RAM are not unloaded. They continue working just fine.

        • ReversalHatchery@beehaw.orgEnglish
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          2 个月前

          but does it load all libraries into ram at startup? there’s also all the resource files, including omni.ja that has a bunch of javascript code