If you tell a normie to run Linux, and something goes wrong, no matter how minor "it's your fault", and "Linux sucks". Their computer was "perfect" until you did that weird thing. You have now caused thermonuclear war.

That's why I think it only makes sense to recommend atomic distros (like bootc based ones), and why for the purpose built distro for my CCN tool I base on a bootc distro

I like nix, especially for servers, but this post was specifically about desktop, for normies.

I don't recommend a normie to run nix, Ubuntu, or really any distro where stuff can go wrong. 

DannyM

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Normies need Linux for their daily use OS

I'm a boomer, and I use Ubuntu as my daily driver and nixOS for some other stuff. Ubuntu is really normie friendly at this point. Fifteen years ago I tried switching to Linux but quit after a few months. The past four years it is all I use. Windows literally drove me crazy with updates, bullshit bloat, etc. Ubuntu is actually easier at this point. 

NixOS was a big learning curve for me. But, once it's set up the way you want, it really is very easy too. 