Any recommendations for a linux distro that i can set up and be reasonably sure my non techy SO won’t break accidentally? The set up doesn’t have to be easy it just has to not break once I leave her alone with it. My first thought was popOS.
My plan is to have 2 profiles and not give her access to sudo. I just don’t want to have to go into it unless she needs a new program.
The common theme with us and the complaint from Linus is openSUSE. Dunno why these groups aren’t set up as default on Tumbleweed, maybe some old and dusty security policy. This case seems to be some polkit nonsense going on, dunno why this is the default. But this is the sort of stuff a user without root password might bump into that would cause them pain.
I ran into this in opensuse too, from reading it looks like a symptom of YaST using a separate root user for elevation and it looks like untangling that is a major overhaul of the system. Much of the polkit looked to be poorly or not configured so that things like WiFi passwords and fingerprint logon needed manual adjustment to work, or just seem flat out broken.
Compare with something like Fedora and things seem configured as you would expect out of the box.