and in the middle you have one or two people like : "Try different distro, try different desktop. Find peace by tracing your own path" But those voice aren't often audible.
i installed Manjaro with Gnome on newbies laptops. Fully functional, Easy to use, nice to look at and software-sources Integration with graphical installer is great.
As someone who would like to switch to Linux, and has tried several times. I would like to say how confusing and useless all these "helpful" threads are. I'm a senior citizen. All I want is something dumb shit simple. But it always degrades into mindless techno babble. And when i finally did manage to get mint installed. (I have no idea how i did it). I couldn't get my VPN to work so i abandoned it.
in the end it always comes down to the user being willing to learn at least a few new concepts. I use fedora daily for years and I never had a single issue on desktop or laptop that would have required me to dig down to the cli. I had a lot more windows machines where I reinstalled to get rid of an issue.
In the end, the distribution does not matter, as long as someone joins the Linux community. And if somebody has their first experiences with one of the big distros, and can say what they likes, what not, and what doesn't work as it should, then we can recommend distributions.
It really comes down to your goals, technical skills, free time, and how quickly you can and will learn new things. Arch is a great way to force yourself to learn new things if you love pain. Once you embrace the pain you can choose to live there or use an Arch based distro that does some of the grunt work for you. Do you like trying to figure out how to generate a UEFI boot entry or trying to find a package source to run a niche software on Debian?
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I am sure you will get the switch to Linux done. 😃
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