I’m not a complete newb when it comes to Linux but I am a newb for running it as my main desktop OS. I ran Mint for a few months but the game I play just stopped working. I kept booting back into Windows as a work around. I eventually wiped Mint off and went with Arch. I gotta admit I was expecting to run into issues but I’ve had no issues at all. I’ve always been a fan of minimalism so Arch has always been on my radar. I’m glad I sucked up the courage to try Arch as it really has worked out well for me.
You’re making a lot of unfounded assumptions here. Also, either your reading comprehension sucks or you’re being deliberately obtuse by claiming I said any such thing.
“Hey New User, shut up and come back when you’ve read the documentation for each component of every distro and studied how they interact with each other. I am too burned out from maintaining my rare and arcane DIY configuration to answer your stupid questions.”
I’m an arch user myself, chose it because i wanted to get familiar with command line and force myself to learn a bit more about linux. Since choosing a DE was also paralyzing, I opted for i3 and now use sway and learned more about config files. Great part about linux is you can try and use what you like and works for you.
Was that the joke? I don’t know if I was misunderstanding, but I thought the loud crow was supposed to be a new Linux user complaining that the few-mentioned easy-to-use distro’s being too many options.
No. It’s someone responding to questions for what distros to try as a new user. That’s why it starts with “new user?” to identify the subject of who it’s speaking to. The crow is giving it’s own advice for harder distros that a Windows user would switch to.
I definitely recommend a beginner friendly distro to start with, but also encourage going through a Gentoo install at least once to get a better understanding of how the system works
Whether you succeed or fail at getting the install to boot and run or not, you’ll learn something from the experience
It fells like we have some sort of natural difficulty to deal with choices, doesn’t it? Even when choosing between equally good things, it isn’t something we do so easily.
I truly love Debian. As long as you get the right ISO (live with non-free firmware included), it’s perfect for beginners. Calamares installer and good hardware support.
I generally recommend Kubuntu for new users though.
I liked Ubuntu prior to snap. I’ve gone back to Debian and aside from a slightly complex install, I think that the distro is the epitome of stability and “just works”, especially for the normal software stuff I do. It’s 30 years old for a reason.
My experiences with arch are that it just broke if you looked at it funny and I like stuff that doesn’t require the constant tinkering. This is the same reason I don’t do smart tech and still own dumb and mechanical watches.
I feel like I’m in the minority in this community lately.
Go with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed or Fedora, because software updates roll in at a good pace. Stable, easy to use and configure.
Go with Arch or Manjaro only if you really want the bleeding-edge software versions. You can have some instability as a result, or not. Good luck.
Don’t go with Debian, Ubuntu and likewise, only if you want to make some gymnastics to update your programs every major release. These are the most stable Linux distros.
If you want fairly bleeding edge, go with OpenSuSE Tumbleweed and you’ll still have a stable system with no version update worries (well, technically, there’s a version update every other day).
I want to go pick a fight with openSuse forums because the installer failed 3 times in different ways. I changed it up to different releases, Leap, etc… Never had issues like that with any other distro.
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