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[–] 10 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Check out Mint. It's based on Ubuntu but has Canonical's controversial stuff removed, plus an added layer of polish.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    It's so weird, because Ubuntu used to be the beginner distro. I started out on it and was hooked. The level of polish and out-of-the-box readiness was really welcoming to my old mac brain.

    Ubuntu would actually still be a good beginner distro imo if it wasn't for the way they implemented their custom stuff. Even the distinction between apt and snaps is enough to scare away beginners.

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

    What version of Firefox does it install? I tried Ubuntu, but the Snaps are having real trouble with my N150 CPU in the mini PC I bought. Cannot do hardware video decoding at all, despite the CPU being more than capable of it.

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  • [–] 5 points 11 months ago

    Well, the Snaps are one of the things they took out. Flatpaks are enabled in the software manager by default though.

    I believe everything that comes preinstalled, including Firefox and LibreOffice and such, is installed the traditional way as if you did "apt install firefox."

    I installed LibreWolf and like it. It's just firefox with telemetry removed and some privacy hardening out of the box.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago*

    I love Mint. I'm a Linux noob but took the plunge this year and installed it. Its not 100% plain sailing but it is close enough and worth it for the simple unintrusive OS interface that Microsoft has obliterated.

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