So, my parents bought a new laptop with Windows 10 installed.

Do you like your mom?

Install Gentoo.

>>55256567
I actually prefer Slackware.

>>55256551
You'll probably want to install classic start for them because the default start menu is pretty useless and unintuitive.

If it's on a laptop you will probably want to disable windows update sharing to reduce the amount of connections, It will probably save battery life.

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install Debian 8 you cant go wrong. wipe that botnet shit off

>>55256801
What part of "Don't suggest Linux" did you not understand?

You'll probably want to do the following as a bare minimum:

- Disable automatic driver updates
- Disable peer to peer updates

You could just download O&O shutup10 and that will take care of pretty much all the annoying parts.

If a Live account is available, you can set it for use only on the Store and not as a system account. That way they can install shit from the Store and keep the OS separate from the account.

Look up and use 'Destroy Windows Spying' if you're not aware of it already, going for any other Windows user also. Gets rid of some of the in-built 'spyware' pieces of Windows OS's

Install Manjaro. It's like Arch but better.

>>55256551
>Parents' don't use Linux, you know this. So don't suggest it.
I recommend using Fedora

>>55256751
Ah, there's a way to get the classic start menu? Neat. I'll figure that out.

Haven't heard of Windows Update Sharing. I'll see about it.

>>55256858
I'll see about these things. Thanks.

return the laptop and get them a macbook instead
seriously

>>55257342
My dad is the only sort of "technical" one of the two and he has only ever used Windows. He has no interest in Macs and neither do I.