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Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks (www.theregister.com)
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[–] Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago

The mainstream distros do not need any technical knowledge. Installing it requires a bit of knowledge (setting up a bootable USB stick and getting UEFI to boot from USB), but that's basically it.

The only wrinkle is making sure beforehand that all the programs you use in Windows either work on Linux or have an equivalent.

My very nontechnical gf happily used Ubuntu for many years. Switched her to Fedora about 2 years ago. She only really uses Firefox, torrents, VLC, and some Steam games (recently Witcher 3 and Tabletop Simulator), so it's all very straightforward.