stolen from linux memes at Deltachat

  • Neil@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    8 months ago

    Arch user here.

    My recommendation to noobies is always Linux Mint even though I don’t use it.

    I use Arch, btw.

    • Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      8 months ago

      As a seasoned distrohopper, can confirm. When I try something new, I always ask myself: Would a noob be ok with the fact that in this distro you have to do things this way. In Fedora, Debian, Manjaro and so many other I always end up saying “no” more than a few times. With Mint, you just don’t bump into these situations very often. IMO, Mint is the best starter distro for most users. If you know your friend is very technical, you can recommend something else.

    • reric88🧩@beehaw.org
      1·
      4 months ago

      Mint was my first used, was straightforward and easy to get going. Still use mint.

      I’ve always read it doesn’t really matter what distro you choose, just to pick one you like. That’s confusing to a noob because they don’t know why they should or shouldn’t like a specific one.

      Mint is very simple to setup and works very much like a windows PC by default. Can even set it up to work like a Mac if you want to.

  • GBU_28@lemm.eeEnglish
    2·
    8 months ago

    heres the thing: as a decade+ software dev, I never want to even think about my distro.

    I just want Linux terminal style commands, and Linux style ssh shit to just work in the most middle of the road way as possible. I’m trying to get a job done, not build a personality.

  • ara@lemmy.ml
    1·
    8 months ago

    I don’t have any issue with Arch, everything works. But when I try other distros, they are mostly messed up.

  • Commiunism@lemmy.wtf
    1·
    8 months ago

    I don’t get the hate arch gets - it’s the perfect distro if you want to choose what programs you want to use, it’s not meant to be an out of the box experience. Been using it for 3 years, and sure it might take me a couple of hours to set up initially, but after that I don’t really have to do anything.

  • SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de
    1·
    8 months ago

    Isn’t archwiki one of the most comprehended wikis for Linux distros out there? If anything, the arch-wiki (to me) has often too many answers for the same problem than the other way around.

  • milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev
    1·
    7 months ago

    Ex arch btw user here. I noped out and wiped after thinking I had it all nailed down, then I tried to connect my Bluetooth headphones and I came to a grand awakening. I am too old for this shit.

    Installed Tumbleweed and been happy ever since.

    • Pantherina@feddit.deOP
      0·
      7 months ago

      Its probably just one package. I guess for example pacman -S plasma-desktop plasma-meta flatpak fish plasma-wayland-session sddm sddm-kcm && systemctl enable --now sddm does the trick.

      Archinstall with the entire plasma desktop is probably also nice, or just EndeavorOS which will be preconfigured

      • milkjug@lemmy.wildfyre.dev
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        7 months ago

        I actually did the whole KDE shebang with archinstall. I never really expected that Arch btw deigned it too opinionated to just provide an audio and Bluetooth interface. Instead I have to choose between pulse audio and pipewire and bluez and a bunch of others. I just didn’t have the patience nor time to look into what and why these options are presented, and this was after I already wasted days figuring how to get my pc to boot with my 12th gen Intel and Nvidia gpu combination.

        Turns out there’s a bunch of kernel finagling you absolutely have to do first before it even decides to boot from the gpu and not the igpu. Oh well.

  • ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
    0·
    7 months ago

    I use Ubuntu. It generally tends to be boring stable, which is kinda what I want out of my OS these days. I can still customize it, and even break it if I really get bored, but it’s nice to have things just work for the most part.

  • Titou@feddit.deEnglish
    0·
    8 months ago

    “Wiki do not have answer” that’s why the wiki is also used by non-arch users ?

    • Tiuku@sopuli.xyz
      1·
      8 months ago

      Ay this is a funny meme and all but insulting the best linux documentation available was unnecessary

  • Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyiEnglish
    0·
    7 months ago

    Bruh, if you’re going to insist on someone installing arch, at least sit by their side and walk them through it.

    Having installed arch multiple times before, I can get a base system with networking and desktop environment up in half a day to a day depending on which DE.