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How to start as a not very tech savy person (lemmy.ml)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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with the recent windows news, I wanna switch to Linux. I tried mint a few years ago and was annoyed and frustrated with multiple things, like having to input the password all the time and the general ammunt of constant trouble shooting and needing a tutorial for the most basic things.

I want a distro that:

  1. Is very user friendly, ideally not requiring a terminal
  2. Is hard to accidentally fuck up
  3. ideally doesn't require a password for every input

I basically just use my laptop to browse the web, draw in krita and use ms office apps (have been getting used to open office lately)

What do y'all suggest?

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[–] 15 points 11 months ago (3 children)

As someone who uses and likes tumbleweed I don't know if I would recommend it for inexperienced users. Once you start adding third party repositories for things like video codecs, dependency issues can get really nasty. Zypper will always offer you solutions to resolve them, but if you aren't careful which one you select you can easily do stuff like accidentally remove your network driver which is a very annoying problem to have

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Shhh don't tell them about 3rd party repos. That's why I somewhat disclaimed it with the Learning Curve, but having yast and snapper for me onboard as a new Linux user was very helpful.

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