Anonymous
9/14/2025, 7:03:03 PM
No.106585390
>>106585048
>new wine prefixes might have symlinks to your home directory in C:\users\(You)
This is actually not the case for Bottles, since it's flatpak doesn't have access to your /home by default. So when a wine prefix is created, no links are made.
>brightness controls
The KDE ones work fine for me. I'm not sure how standardized DDC/CI is, but it could be that wayland or whatever compositor/wm you use doesn't support your screen's brightness control interface.
>>106585159
It really depends on the distro and DE. For example, anything that's immutable has historically been very accessible. Although, up until a couple of years ago, immutable distros were pretty much only used on gaming handhelds (not talking about SteamDeck specifically, but the ARM chinkhelds running stuff like Rocknix, Android and similar).
An "accessible" distro in my mind would be something that's well set up out of the box, kept reasonably up to date and is immutable (as it's less likely to break after major upgrades). Aurora and Bazzite perfectly match this imo.
For Wine you can just install Bottles. It's basically equivalent to running a console emulator. (Bazzite comes with Lutris pre-installed, but I honestly find it more complex)
Alternatively, if you're setting up a distro for your grandma (or whoever) yourself, then you can also consider anything that doesn't change very often. Mint, for example, only gets a major update every 2 years and it's DEs don't visually change much if at all aside from small color changes in the themes. Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce pretty much look identical now as they did 8 years ago. Although KDE and GNOME have recently slowed down the visual changes too, so I'd still consider them a better option.
>new wine prefixes might have symlinks to your home directory in C:\users\(You)
This is actually not the case for Bottles, since it's flatpak doesn't have access to your /home by default. So when a wine prefix is created, no links are made.
>brightness controls
The KDE ones work fine for me. I'm not sure how standardized DDC/CI is, but it could be that wayland or whatever compositor/wm you use doesn't support your screen's brightness control interface.
>>106585159
It really depends on the distro and DE. For example, anything that's immutable has historically been very accessible. Although, up until a couple of years ago, immutable distros were pretty much only used on gaming handhelds (not talking about SteamDeck specifically, but the ARM chinkhelds running stuff like Rocknix, Android and similar).
An "accessible" distro in my mind would be something that's well set up out of the box, kept reasonably up to date and is immutable (as it's less likely to break after major upgrades). Aurora and Bazzite perfectly match this imo.
For Wine you can just install Bottles. It's basically equivalent to running a console emulator. (Bazzite comes with Lutris pre-installed, but I honestly find it more complex)
Alternatively, if you're setting up a distro for your grandma (or whoever) yourself, then you can also consider anything that doesn't change very often. Mint, for example, only gets a major update every 2 years and it's DEs don't visually change much if at all aside from small color changes in the themes. Cinnamon, MATE and Xfce pretty much look identical now as they did 8 years ago. Although KDE and GNOME have recently slowed down the visual changes too, so I'd still consider them a better option.