I love the fact that Ubuntu, Redhat and SUSE are competing for long term enterprise support. The philosophy “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” rings true, Linux enterprise deployment business make more revenue and the update backports and security backport fixes help the wider community too.

I think much of the gatekeeping is over concern that if you mess up, you could unknowingly be allowing a sophisticated hacker to access all the data on your network, without any obvious signs. And maybe some people don’t want to field noob questions like “I clicked something and now the GUI gives a 😕 and doesn’t work anymore, what do I do?”.

There is a skill floor, I would say similarly that you wouldn’t be ready to install Linux yourself if you don’t get suspicious when a .iso download gives you a .exe file instead.

I think Yunohost is a decent solution for beginners that avoids as much of the nitty-gritty as possible. Louis Rossman has made a massive guide that’s about as close as an IKEA step-by-step as you can get with this stuff. We should be encouraging people to learn, but there is a sense of reticence to have people get too in over their heads due to cybersecurity reasons.

Edit: linked the guide

Neil planted a drumstick in the ground as a teenager, it sprouted into a drum pedal, and before he knew it, cymbals were in full bloom around him.

May he enjoy eternal bliss with his infinite-piece drum kit.

If you know the games she plays, you could test installing them separately ahead of time, so that there would be minimal difference when that switchover happens.

Here on Lemmy all moderator actions are public and available for viewing on what’s known as the “modlog”

Saying it again to everyone in the back. The modlog is a great feature. Instance Mods and admins can’t just disappear people and communities without a trace, and trolls can’t make up stories of unfair moderation without bringing receipts and their old account name.