My daughter used her lenovo notebook with windows 10 on it and no antivirus protection on it and she got a trojan. A really, really bad one. Her computer wouldn't boot. I spent three entire days trying to get it working before I gave up. I even posted on a windows 10 forum. Anyway I have one exactly like it and I lent it to her and now for some reason I'm having to replace her computer. Mine has Kubuntu. I have three laptops now, 2 notebooks and a chromebook. I have slackware Debian, FreeBSD, I plan on installing arch on my new replacement laptop (and no I can't return it) that I should get any day and at this rate it looks like I'll be installing gentoo also. My question is what to install on this notebook. I don't want anything debian based and I want it to be fairly easy. Suggestions? And what the hell am I going to do with so many computers?!!!!!!!! Sorry, that was my frustration.

Remix OS or Phoenix OS, both Android Linux type OSes, but Phoenix looks alot like Windows 10

when you say replace her computer. DO you mean get a whole new one?

why not just an HDD if that trojan screwed it up ..

from my limited knowledge of Trojans I thought worse case scenario would be a wipe the HDD ( format it) to rid the Trojan then start over as if it is a new HDD.

then you could just install Linux or windows again. that is all I ever did way back in the day with Trojans or whatever it was that infected me. It is too long ago to remember that much information.

Well I thought about wiping it and putting windows back on and then she decided she wanted a laptop instead of a notebook This was AFTER I spent all that time working on it!!. Which is why I'm going to wipe every little shred of windows off and install another distro. I just have to figure what. I checked distrowatch and most things are debian based or ububtu (which is basically debian) based. It's a good thing I have a lot of spare time.

say no more. I Thought that is what might have happened. The Ole daughter ploy to get a new one instead. I already know how that one works.


The sacrifices one makes for their children.

do remember firewall just to be safer. For whichever one you decided to use. Which hopefully will help her to train her brain more as well. Let her learn how to fix and customize it. With a little help and guidance from you of course.

You still got your fallback here in LQ.

You might be interested in this one: http://www.pclinuxos.com/about/

Thanks. Yes children cab be very good at manipulating!!


Thanks for the suggestions. I'm definitely looking at them.

I'd put something that you are very familiar with, as it will be a new experience for her, & you will end up having to sort it out with/for her.

I have been a Debian devotee until systemd, I don't like it, so I choose anything familiar without it, & the best one, for me, is AntiX, but I'd point you to its sister MX Linux as it is a slightly larger distro, which may appeal to her.

Otherwise, why not get her into FreeBSD, she probably wont care what the O/S is, as long as it does what she wants to do.

I guess I wasn't clear and I apologize. She needs windows. I need something to put on her old but new to me notebook. But if I've learned anything it's to do a system restore immediately and the computer has a 60 day trial of McAfee. But she is going to pay for it. The well is running dry! Thanks