Switched my parents to mint probably 10 years ago and I haven’t heard any complaints, just had to remind them to update every so often and had to upgrade once EOL came. It has been the same with my very non technical girlfriend that switched to mint probably a year ago.

If you make sure they have supported hardware (and most of it is supported these days) my bet is you won’t have to support them at all.

Why on earth would anyone willfully install ChromeOS? I haven’t followed recent developments but I’ve always thought of it as very limiting, not to mention just as bad in terms of privacy as a Windows install.

Is that just an Electron wrapper?

Edit: looking at the phoronix comments it seems to be. I really don’t get why they though this is even worth a twitter post. Just an inefficient wrapper for an even more inefficient text generator…

Yes, you can.

Glad it was reported properly. Imo this is just as bad as copy fail, as it affects mostly regular desktop users.

I have helped plenty of not-very-technical people switch to Linux and these kinds of vulnerabilities scare me the most when it comes to them.