toxinvx, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux I made the mistake of putting a friend on Arch... He's willing to retry Linux because he's afraid of digital surveillance, and this time I'm just going to put him on Fedora KDE

fionnlagh, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux Okay I get it. But Hannah Montana Linux might be worth a shot 😉😃

mausmalone, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux Checking the replies and seeing all the recommendations for smaller distros

Fry from Futurama saying: I am shocked. SHOCKED. Well, not that shocked.

bluGill, 4 months ago

I recommend random linux distributions because Ubuntu is now a bad choice for new users. 15 years ago ubuntu was a great choice, but they have made some really bad decisions and now are not usable for newbies.

juancaraujos, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux Distro comment Wars on 3... 2... 1...

(waits a minute or two)

"Open Source" vs. "Free Software" comment war starts in 3... 2... 1...

(Leaving the place because I know the important thing is the first step and either @ubuntu or @fedora are good choices... So are Mint or @pop_os_official )
🙄🤦🏻‍♂️🤷🏻‍♂️

Cymphoni_Fantastique, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux
Please and thank you.

Ray_Of_Sunlight, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux I would personally recommend Linux Mint over Ubuntu, specially after all the questionable decisions of Cannonicals

egeexyz, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux Hot take but a lot of tiny distros just suck.

Bless the developers for working their best on it but they gotta stop saying their distro is for "New Users" when it hardly works.

I'd name drop like 6 distros off the top of my head right now but I think most people are aware of them.

It's ok to be a fun boutique power-user distro. Not everything has to be about the newbies

manuti, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux totally agree

bamboombibbitybop, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux I think the exception is Nobara for gaming.

TheGymNerd, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux why not Debian since Ubuntu is actually "just" derivative of it?

But the most silly thing in my eyes is to praise something like Kubuntu over straight Ubuntu... It's just a different desktop environment. If you really want it you can just install it. No need to swap out the entire OS for it. I think that confuses new Linux users more than anything else.

pikachu_sensei, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux One more thing, please stop recommending wine as a solution for apps that doesn't work with Linux natively. There are so many things that can go wrong with that approach. Video Games are a different thing and that's where wine/proton do an amazing job at. Linux might not be a good choice for those who are completely dependent on those apps and I don't think a native version would be made for Linux just because they use the windows version of app on linux.

greenman, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux

For a new user, i wouldn't recommend Ubuntu anymore because with snap and apt, there is here two distinct packages mechanisms.
It's confusing.

In my mind, few years ago, Ubuntu was a good choice, but for now, Debian is a better choice.

jedi, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux for a new Linux user, not tech savvy, I have only recommended 3 distros: ZorinOS, Linux Mint and elementary OS.

All of them have been fairly "support free" after the initial tour I give after installing.

popey, 4 months ago

@jedi @gamingonlinux By "support free" do you mean They switched back to windows and blocked my calls" :D

jedi, 4 months ago

@popey @gamingonlinux nope. They kept Linux on the machine for at least one whole year.

The first call I got from my mom was 3 months after the install of Linux Mint. Then another 6 months until she had problems with a government related program, and then nothing. It was 6 years ago, she still uses Linux Mint.

popey, 4 months ago

@jedi @gamingonlinux Wonderful!

avesbury_rosetta, 4 months ago

@gamingonlinux
That and new users are unlikely to care about things like systemd, flatpak, GNOME, or snap. Making evangelical recommendations based on these rather niche technical decisions is just gonna give the impression that we don't have our shit together

kbal, 4 months ago

@avesbury_rosetta Even users who don't know or care about snap can be confused and frustrated by the weirdness of snap. I don't recommend Ubuntu any more. Most of the others are fine.

avesbury_rosetta, 4 months ago

@kbal @gamingonlinux Yeah tbh I always recommend Mint or Fedora to new users because they're relatively comprehensive and pass my software vibe check