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Linux users are the vegans of the computer world (lemmy.world)
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"As a Linux user..."

Yeah yeah, you're right. But can you maybe shut up about it for just a minute?

USE LINUX

LINUX IS BETTER IN EVERY WAY

MICROSOFT SUCKS APPLE SUCKS GOOGLE SUCKS

THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP

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[–] albertsy2@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

What is a good distro for an absolute noob? Like me.

[–] HappySquid@feddit.ch 7 points 1 year ago

Linux Mint is pretty good, it has a Windows 7 kind of feel to it. Fedora is also nice, it great for tablet, also with touch. Both work pretty well and consistently out of the box.

[–] darcy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

mint! its popular for beginners, ubuntu based, user friendly, lots of tutorials/troubleshooting help

[–] narwhalperson@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Mint is great for beginners. I never had any issues with it and the cinnamon desktop is very nice.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pop!_OS is the absolute best for beginners. Pick KDE if you want a Windows experience and Gnome if you want a Mac experience.

[–] qjkxbmwvz@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

Depends a lot on use case, certainly!

Also, do you like a "bottom up" or "top down" approach? Grabbing a raspberry pi and setting up a headless (no monitor) home server is a great bottom up way of getting familiar with things

learn to configure various services and whatnot from the command line. Or, just start with a user-friendly distro with a GUI you like, and gradually work your way up to looking under the hood.

[–] covert_czar@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Pop!_os for sure but dont mess up the gui like linustechtips did

[–] mexicancartel@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

Nvidia? Pop!_OS probably.

Mint is great but its using the legacy display manager so some people witg multi monitors with different frame rates bla bla had issued with it tho.

[–] discomatic@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Watch a few beginner tutorials on YouTube and see which one appeals to you most.