This seems ok to me. Over time you might come to regret it if you have many scripts and they want to use different package versions...
Another approach could be to write a shell script which loads the virtual environment and then starts the main script. something like
cd /home/rimu/path_to_my_script/
source venv/bin/activate
python myscript.py
Put your shell script in ~/bin and ensure that ~/bin is in your $PATH.
Ubuntu or Mint are among the most noob-friendly.
But probably the biggest impact will be whether you go with Gnome or KDE. KDE is more Windows-like so could be a softer landing.
I've read a lot of stories where installing Linux resulted in less support calls, not more. It depends on how ambitious the user is - if they're mostly just staying in their lane and browsing the web it should be rock solid.
Yeah 0.1% would be within some sort of margin of error, surely.
80% of the time, compiling something from source is just a matter of downloading the code, opening a terminal and changing to the directory containing the source and running these commands:
./configure
make
make install
It's the same 3 commands, 80% of the time.
Installing the prerequisites can be tricky, if the docs are lacking.
If we knew how hard things were going to be (or how long they would take!), we wouldn't attempt the task. Being a bit deluded about how smart we are is helpful for this.
Plus, there is a lot of autism in IT which sometimes makes people seem like arrogant dickheads even if they aren't.
Trying to get a visa for Russia, while in Mongolia. It took a week and 4 trips to the embassy. The staff spoke very little English and were surly. They kept asking for more documents. In the end the only visa we could get was a Transit Visa, which gave us 7 days in Russia - long enough to ride the trans-siberian train for 5 days and then fly out of Moscow.
The second worst was getting the visa for Mongolia, in Beijing. But that's another story.
Here's another user style https://userstyles.world/style/10301/better-lemmy.
It widens the display, changes bright green buttons to blue ones and improves the indentation of replies.
One of the big weaknesses of Mastodon is it does a poor job of showing replies to posts, if you're on a small server. A lot of replies don't get federated, so you won't see them. It's rubbish. I spent weeks trying other software until I found one that proactively goes to the original server and retrieves replies on the fly, when you view the thread. It is called 'Akkoma' and it is fantastic.
https://mycrowd.ca/ is the Akkoma instance that I settled on.
Another major limitation of Mastodon is all replies are shown in a single long list, unlike lemmy. For this reason I quite like Friendica. Friendica has a UI that is reminiscent of Facebook. https://venera.social/ is a good instance. However now that Lemmy/Kbin is blowing up I feel less need for it.
Only to agitate for the indefinite blackout https://www.reddit.com/r/ModCoord/comments/148ks6u/indefinite_blackout_next_steps_polling_your/
Agreed.
This doesn't need to be hard - there are plenty of boilerplate "code of conduct" documents for online communities which can be copied or used as a starting point. e.g. https://mycrowd.ca/about
Sweet as!