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Easiest distro for elderly parent
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I don't know much about immutable distros, but I do know that wine installs everything in
~/.wine/drive_cand automatically places .desktop files in your desktop directory whenever you install a program that creates a desktop shortcut, all of which should work just fine on immutable distros.Except you have to run wine via distrobox or toolbox and there it behaves different. The toolbox one also has an issue with it being virtualized it seems. And forget about a runner script that prevents the integration of random .exe for security.