Get the cheapest and get a feeling for if this is the right thing for you or not, and if so, what more expensive equipment you actually need/want. You can always sell the stuff you don’t need.

One other thing to consider later would be what lenses you can borrow from friends.

Well the image is based on fedora linux and the tooling was developed by fedora, I believe. I put Aurora Linux on my dad’s aging PC around christmas, because it doesn’t qualify for Windows 11 and 10 ends support soon. In my experience it boots pretty slowly on physical machines (with n=2, fine on VMs though), and it doesn’t reliably wake from suspend, but other that that, it’s completely fine. I did not try to install any other Linux for comparison though

You might want to try using an auto updating bootc based solution instead, such as universal blue with customized images. They have instructions on how to do image customization.

But more importantly: send him something like a NanoKVM along with the USB!

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It also means updates are just full system images, so no way for a package manager or differential update to mess anything up. It also means no way of downloading tiny differential updates (if I understand everything correctly).

If you don’t need DX or would like to switch off of KDE, there are other fedora atomic desktop based distributions available.

Oh right, a distribution is just an image, so switching distributions is as simple as switching the base OS image and rebooting.

Not necessarily exactly the same wires, but all rated for 16A, so the circuit beaker will trip long before any wire gets a chance to heat up

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