• groet@feddit.orgEnglish
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      7 months ago

      It could. It just doesn’t want to. Why would it? Its your computer.

      If you want to delete / including the EFI partition turning your machine into a paperweight you should be allowed to do so.

        • LinyosT@sopuli.xyz
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          7 months ago

          While that is possible. You do have to go out of your way to do that in ways a typical user wouldn’t.

          Aside from that like others have said. Just don’t give sudo perms and have them use Flatpak.

            • MajorHavoc@programming.dev
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              7 months ago

              Just to be clear, the person answering Flatpaks isn’t being flippant. Any tools, editors or games that Mom wants, she can safely install by searching and clicking ‘intall’, all without enough permissions to harm her computer.

              Linux, for less technical parents, is genuinely really nice, now.

            • gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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              7 months ago

              you can add sudo permissions for individual users for certain commands only; and i recommend you would do that; i.e. give her sudo permission for installing/uninstalling applications, but nothing else.

  • blackjam_alex@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Installing old Linux applications IS a problem. They’re available only if someone repackaged them for newer distros. If not they can’t run anymore because of dependencies mismatch.