And that distro, or rather distro family is Fedora Atomic distros.
Anyone completely switching off windows needs a bulletproof system, and you just can’t get that with other distros. Especially if you’re allowed to modify system files. Universal Blue is the only project I’d consider to be aligned with this idea.
- For the non programmer: Aurora
- For the developer: Blue Fin
- For the gamer: Bazzite
Users can install new apps via the Bazaar, or command line tools via homebrew. And that’s it.
If you want to mess around with other systems, you can use distro shelf or a spare computer. But if you’re a newbie, I wouldn’t even recommend Linux Mint anymore.
My daily distro is EndeavourOS btw.
Fedora is already a ZOO to get full HEVC support on. Have you ever managed to get h.265 to play on immutable Fedora? If they need modern video codec support, immutable Fedora is a non-option. Also the Bluetooth kind of sucks on Fedora more than on Mint or Endeavor/other Arch for normies options, and it has worse dongle support than Endeavor and worse printer support than Mint.