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  • Gunpachi@lemmings.world
    25·
    1 year ago

    Well both are good choices, but for new linux users coming from windows - Mint would be way easier to get started with.

      • folkrav@lemmy.ca
        17·
        1 year ago
        • Alma/Rocky - I wouldn’t particularly push fresh converts to RHEL/CentOS based distros, but maybe that’s just me…
        • Debian - sure… given they can figure out the slightly less intuitive installer and non-free stuff
        • Ubuntu - Canonical has been making some weird decisions lately. With them dropping Unity, then Mir… I wouldn’t bet on snaps while the rest of the world settled on flatpak
          • folkrav@lemmy.ca
            4·
            1 year ago

            Would you wish SELinux on a beginner tho

            Jesting apart, it’s admittedly a solid option. Sticking to a mainstream distro is typically what I recommend, regardless of which one. Most of the debates surrounding distros are pretty silly to begin with, IMHO, considering most differences boil down to which package manager and init system they use, and their set of default software and configurations.

        • hddsx@lemmy.ca
          11·
          1 year 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

      • stoy@lemmy.zip
        1·
        1 year ago

        Personally I would pick Mint over Alma/Rocky as I am less familiar with RPM based distros than DEB based distros, I would recommend Mint over Debian as it is easier to get working with gaming, Ubuntu is great, but I won’t recommend snaps to a new user.