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They'll cast you back to the Windows realm with all their toxic might (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 month ago by Natanox@discuss.tchncs.de to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world

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[–] Nalivai@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

In my latest experience, pointing someone coming from Windows or Mac towards Ubuntu or whatever Ubuntu-derrivative is the most popular now, brings worse experience than giving them Arch. All the problems with Ubuntu that will eventually arise will not be fun and basic. Have you ever tried to teach a noobie to install the correct NVidia drivers? Or teach someone how to upgrade their system-wide python version so their third-party ppa repo will correctly update (one that you just taught them how to add)?
I don't know, maybe like 15 years ago that was different, but right now I can tell you from numerous experiences, Arch with KDE goes down way more smoothly than any Ubuntu or even Debian.
Unless there are zero problems and everything just works, and the user just uses the computer as an interface for Chrome, in which case it kind of doesn't matter.

[–] DFX4509B_2@lemmy.org 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Also, Endeavour is a thing if someone is a true newbie to the platform and is looking for a prebuilt distro, and archinstall nullifies a lot of the 'difficulty' in airquotes of installing Arch.