What’s good in linuxes for laypeople these days, I’m thinking of getting back on it
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Don’t make me regret asking this, nerds
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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
mike@chinwag.org@liamvhogan depends if you want something funky to mess about with or to just get some work done.
Honestly, I'd just recommend Debian for most people. Ubuntu is disappearing up its own corporate arse, strong avoid but there is a lot of existing documentation based around "how do I do X on Ubuntu?" and if you think that's something you want to rely on, Mint is basically Ubuntu with the insanity cut out.
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neoluddite
neoluddite@aus.social@liamvhogan all the Linuxes are fine except for NixOS which has Nazis.
Debian, Ubuntu*, Mint are all pretty good if you want a specific recommendation.
* modulo Mark Shuttleworth, who is a fucking weirdo and the Canonical hiring process sucks, but the distro is fine
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Bela Lugosi's Dreads
jimbob@aus.social@mike @liamvhogan yep Mint is streamlined Ubuntu that Just Works, except when occasionally it doesn't there is plenty of Ubuntu documentation out there you can use to fix it. I run it on my 2011 MacBook Air and it's smooth as hell.
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Mike [SEC=OFFICIAL]
mike@chinwag.org@jimbob @liamvhogan I do think the days of Ubuntu being of any value (beyond having a lot of pre-existing guides) are pretty much over though.
It used to be "it's Debian but your video card works" but mainline Debian is that now, and since they started including proprietary firmware by default it runs really well out of the box on pretty much everything.
But either/or really, once you're at a desktop and add Flatpak to the system you're pretty good to go for most "normal" usage without much more screwing around and can just get some shit done.
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@liamvhogan Debian. Least amount of Fucking About of all the options I've used.
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Philip Mallis 🇺🇦
philip@aus.social@liamvhogan Fedora. I did the big move from Windows a few years and found this to be the smoothest transition for me as a non-technical user.
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@liamvhogan this thread has got me thinking about it now. Bloody Mastodon
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nigel
nigel@jimbob @mike @liamvhogan I found far less issues on LMDE than Mint proper, which probably goes along with the Debian/Ubuntu comparison hah.
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