Father-in-law (tech interested but not tech savvy) acquired a laptop for free. It only has 4gb ram and 30gb drive. Only 4gb were free from system and bloatware. It was slow to say the least.
I persuaded him to try Manjaro Linux (minimal), that I could revert it to Windows if he didn't like it.
He liked it. Now 21gb are free to use, it's faster, snappier, responsive.
Linux for the win 🏆
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Manjaro for a newbie? Kind of too much, in my opinion. Why didn't you go with Mint or Fedora?
Because they don't need to worry about any back end terminal stuff.
They just need the Internet browser on the home screen with the icons enlarged, where the GUI package updater is, and how to turn it on and off.
Figured Manjaro would also have less overhead that Mint or Fedora
what do you mean by overhead? 🤔
Resource overhead. Manjaro, being close to Arch Linux, has less overhead than Mint and Fedora, which are more "downstream" distros with extra preinstalled apps and configurations. However, I just researched it more fully and while it's fair to say Fedora and Mint do have more resource overhead, it seems negligible.
