…Extend

You could say they got ahead of the game.

On EndeavourOS, you just have to run nvidia-inst. Mint has the driver manager, and other distros have ways of handling it. For your card, you’ll want the Nvidia Open driver if it doesn’t do it automatically.

TLDR: These days it’s easy.

Out of date Nvidia drivers was the main reason I moved from Tumbleweed to EndeavourOS, at the time they were a couple of generations behind and didn’t even have explicit sync.

Linux Journey will take you through the basics.

She is getting her masters in nursing online so it def needs to be able to accommodate that

Is there any specialist software she needs, or is it browser based?

White Y-Fronts

Some are very different to each other, Arch and Debian where the former is at the bleeding edge of software and the later is the most conservative distro out there. Some are very similar, Ubuntu and Kubuntu where they are the same distro with a different desktop environment and default software.

I rarely see any references to MX in Linux forums

That could be a testament to it’s reliability.

If you’re a near absolute beginner then Linux Journey is a good place to start.

The malicious packages were found and removed quite quickly. Also anyone who doesn’t blindly install from the AUR would have seen a suspicious .lol url. I suppose that a genuine package using a .lol url isn’t impossible, it’s just very unlikely,

These attacks do demonstrate the strength and weakness of the AUR, that anyone can upload anything at any time. The same as flathub and the snap store. Treat all of them with appropriate caution.

Help people install Linux.

@OP, I’d be prepared for very few people to show up. I’ve only taken part in one install party and we had five people turn up the whole evening, and two of them decided not to go for it.

I thought it was dropped. Source

There’s nothing you can do in the more “advanced” distros that you can’t do in Mint. It is fully-fledged Linux with a beginner-friendly wrapper.

Your computer is more powerful than machines that sent humans to the moon

My microwave is more powerful than the machines that sent humans to the moon.

If you run endeavour, you are basically getting Arch with a familiar installer, a few useful helper scripts, and a friendly community. You are still expected to know your hardware and your install. You are still expected to keep up with the Arch news, and make any manual interventions required. If you do that, endeavour is remarkably reliable.

Recently endeavour changed the way they deal with some firmware related packages

Actually, that was Arch and as Endeavour uses the Arch repositories + the AUR, and their own repository for their additions, they were naturally affected.

For the Atari ST, although I actually preferred Hisoft Basic.

Yeah, but to fair, we had comprehensive manuals.

I used to work with a guy who would, genuinely, use the mouse to copy and paste individual characters.