My kid installed Arch once upon a time. I was impressed and pleased with him, but also thinking that was way more work than I wanted to do to not use Windows. So I bought a Steam Deck.
Take the most popular (for now) distro in Ubuntu, remove the proprietary Canonical stuff that makes people say eww, and give the UI some polish and you basically have Linux Mint. And if you REALLY want to reject Ubuntu in its entirety, they do have LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
Why tho?
We all start somewhere, even if it’s the smelliest pink taco.
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Pretty much, haha. The amount of elitism among some Linux users is quite potent.
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Just tell everyone you use arch, even if you don’t.
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I mean, if you’re not using LFS, are you really using linux at all?
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Unless it’s Arch, then everyone seems to agree it is the best Linux.
At which I will point out it’s the second linuxiest Linux. Real penguins use Gentoo
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My kid installed Arch once upon a time. I was impressed and pleased with him, but also thinking that was way more work than I wanted to do to not use Windows. So I bought a Steam Deck.
Weirdly enough that’s my mom’s high school nickname!
oh hey I remember her
Smelly you say? May I recommend you apply some Mint with Cinnamon to spruce up that computer of yours?
https://linuxmint.com/
Take the most popular (for now) distro in Ubuntu, remove the proprietary Canonical stuff that makes people say eww, and give the UI some polish and you basically have Linux Mint. And if you REALLY want to reject Ubuntu in its entirety, they do have LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition).
Because it’s fine, and it’s one of the more “normal” options for first-timers.
it’s not “fine”. i recommended a friend start with ubuntu because it’s the easiest one and tte issues i have had to help with in the past year…
they switched to endeavourOS and i’ve heard no complaints since.