My head tells me Linux Mint, but my heart says listen to your head. Why is this hard? 😂

  • ggiesen@lemmy.caEnglish
    11·
    3 天前

    Mint, without question. A polished, conservative, stable experience with Ubuntu’s broad compatibility baked in, and a familiar desktop experience. Few other distributions can deliver that. I’m very technical myself, but past the age of wanting to tinker with every little thing; I jist want an OS that is stable and gets out of my way to let me get things done - and Mint delivers.

  • Kjell@lemmy.world
    3·
    2 天前

    Depends on the user. An older family member, Linux mint. A gamer, cachyOS. Otherwise fedora could also be an option. But in most cases, the person would choose and install a distro themselves if they are interested and that means that mint becomes the most common answer to the question.

  • qyron@sopuli.xyz
    2·
    2 天前

    Basic Debian

    Yes, it is a bit behind the curve but it is solid, it works and can provide a solid environment for the average run of the mill user.

    • pmk@piefed.caEnglish
      8·
      3 天前

      Head says Linux Mint
      Heart says listen to the head
      Tiling WM Arch

  • keithan@lemmy.zip
    8·
    3 天前

    I would definitely choose Linux Mint 100% :p

    I started off with it and its learning curve wasn’t too steep. It uses Calamares for installation, features a built-in app store, and is very familiar to those coming from Windows.

  • MadameBisaster@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    3 天前

    I installed Aurora cause immutable and auto update so hard to break anything. And normal user only need Browser, LibreOffice and maybe Thunderbird

    • blackbrook@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 天前

      I think this what I came up with last time I considered this question, and I also wonder if I might want to use it for my next machine myself. Do you have a lot of experience using it? Do you feel like it performs pretty well? (I just have concerns that everything being containerized with flatpak and docker might affect that…)

  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca
    31·
    4 天前

    There is a good reason Mint is recommended as the no nonsense beginner distro. For someone more technical and willing to learn I might recommend Fedora.

    One you get past those two distros you are pretty much in the realm where someone should be technical enough to choose their own distro and know what that means.

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      3·
      4 天前

      I’m on maybe an old version of Mint at work and it is kind of miserable.

      Icons don’t work right, the panel is weird, the software center is not very easy to use.

      I’m hoping that new versions are better.