Mint, Manjaro, Fedora, Bazzite… there are plenty of beginner friendly distros these days!
NathanUp
joined 4 years ago
Unless you're printing just a sheet or two at a time, it's unlikely that you're going to be able to print stickers for less than buying from a commercial printer.
Yea, this is an absolutely unhinged price point for a device like this
"I could never leave the cave, climbing is just too inconvenient."
Everything everyone else said, but also it literally has more features. KDE Plasma and apps like Dolphin make Windows look like a toy.
They've had a few embarrassing slip-ups that are largely irrelevant to users of the distro. I used it for years and my partner still uses it. It's a perfectly fine distro.
I agree that the learning curve is surmountable, but the fact is that many people are unwilling to use a CLI, which is valid. It's also very easy to bork your install with EOS, which is terrifying for people who don't have the knowledge to even begin to troubleshoot issues and who just want their system to work. IMO new GNU/Linux users, unless they specifically request a more advanced distros that will help them learn how things work, should always be recommended a distro with the lowest possible learning curve in order to keep their data safe, their confidence high, and minimise downtime. They can distro-hop later if they want to learn.
I love EndeavourOS and I use it myself, but inflicting CLI package management and pacnew files on someone fresh from Windows is like throwing a baby into shark-infested oceans to teach it to swim.
My recommendation for new users is Fedora KDE:
- Almost never has any problems
- Works out of the box
- Up-to-date packages
- GUI package management and upgrades with Discover
- Lots of useful features vs. other desktop environments (such as GNOME that doesn't even have a minimize button)
Mint is what I'd recommend for an elderly person who just needs to browse the internet and reply to emails, but for someone who needs to get work done it's Fedora KDE all the way.
Fedora is a great distro. IMO it and Mint are the “it just works” distros.
Hard agree:
- Mint = "Just works"
- Fedora KDE = "Just works but also has a bunch of useful features and up-to-date packages"
IMO it's overblown. If you even have an issue at all, 99.99% of the time it's user error. And to mitigate that, you just use timeshift with BTRFS and snapshots on GRUB.
Those are photographs…
Editing to add alt text here, as Lemmy still does not support alt text in image posts: A fake screenshot of the FreeBSD Foundation donation page showing Apple, Inc. under the $5-$24 donation category. The screenshot is next to a poorly drawn four-panel comic.
Panel One: Title: "Apple HQ." Two people sit at a large wooden table. Person one: "We used BSD code, now it's time to contribute back." Person two: "Hold on, it's BSD licensed, right? I have an idea.
Panel Two: Title: "FreeBSD donation pipeline" A zoomed in view of a map with a large green line connecting the USA to Europe.
Panel Three: Three people, surrounded in a cloud of filth, scramble beneath the end of a large green pipe, reaching towards it with their wiggly stick-figure arms. One person is leaping in from out of frame. The people have bags under their eyes, many missing teeth, and are wearing sack-like clothing crudely mended with patches of random fabrics.
Panel Four: The pale face of one of the three people beneath the end of the large green pipe, mouth open revealing their jagged yellow teeth as they attempt to catch a trickle of liquid seeping from the end of the pipe. The liquid is captioned: "$24."
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How? Most people here are one missed paycheck away from having their lives upended; they have no time, money, or power. Look into the stats on poverty, healthcare, etc. in the US. The state of affairs is abysmal.