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  • DarkThoughts
    10•6 months ago

    Debian is just old unless you go into the unstable branches, and I don’t use that as an insult because Debian is obviously supposed to be stable. I have literally never heard of Alma or Rocky, and Ubuntu is just shit and has Snap as well as a very unfamiliar desktop layout. Cinnamon or KDE will be much better entries for people coming from Windows.

    Arch is of course just a stupid suggestion for Linux newbies and I honestly can’t take people like you serious for doing so unironically.

    • @hddsx@lemmy.ca
      0•6 months ago

      I agree that arch is stupid for newbies. I was taking a poke at mint. I would never suggest that.

      Alma/Rocky is what CentOS used to be.

      You can install KDE on Ubuntu, but point taken on KDE (I’m not familiar with cinnamon).

      I suggested basically RHEL and Debian because, like you said they are stable and relatively easy to install.

      Snap is rather new to me as well. I have a recent LTS install of Ubuntu and I don’t use it. I doubt someone who’s new into Linux will touch it.

      My other big concern is systemd. If you’re not familiar with Linux, systemd is a nightmare when things go wrong. But, I suppose a newbie won’t care

      • DarkThoughts
        2•6 months ago

        GRUB was a nightmare for me when things went wrong (EndeavourOS / Arch). I think you can say that to a lot of critical Linux system components though. Mint is generally one of the more stable distros out there though and generally considered to be the better Ubuntu.

      • IllecorsEnglish
        2•6 months ago

        You think you don’t use it. Have firefox installed? All that apt install did was grab a wrapper for snap :( same for some other software.