993
Not that I or anyone would ever have issues. (media.piefed.ca)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
149 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Just giggled as my last meme mentioned trouble with displays and appropriately, a large chunk of the replies were "well MY displays work just fine!" (And charmingly, many were thoughts of things to check, other distros etc. It's a very kind community, though that may also be the fediverse.)

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 22 points 9 months ago (11 children)

Yeah, let everyone do their own thing - there's nothing wrong with starting with Slackware if you want to. But if we're going to recommend a starting point to people, maybe go with something that is designed to work out of the box. There's going to be so much else to get adjusted to that extra options aren't necessary.

Oh, and by the way, most people don't like tinkering. They want their car to take them from A to B and their computer to do the thing, it's not a hobby for them and we shouldn't expect new users to be looking for a new hobby.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 11 child comments
    •
  • [–] [S] 11 points 9 months ago

    we shouldn’t expect new users to be looking for a new hobby.

    Infinitely this!

    Yes, it's super cool to have control over your own damned machine but for some, the computer is just the thing the lets them work, porn and game.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    I run slack, alpine, freebsd, deb and mint for the gui testing on various servers personally and professionally.

    I recommend kubuntu.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Thank you

    I have a recommendation for your recommendations. There's KDE Neon which is distributed by the KDE project, which is Ubuntu-based. That's what I personally run, now that I really don't have the time/energy to tinker.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I think a verrrrrrry very large part of the problem is that the most vocal linux proselytisers have never actually had to do a job (or have, but done it very badly) where you have to tailor to the client.

    Rookie mistake.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    Is it really a rookie mistake if it's not their job though?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    'Rookie mistake' applies colloquially in many situations that aren't professional.

    When someone asks you for advice on an OS, tech kit, or any other item you should be considering their use case, not your own.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    Hmm, when a car has problems, you go to someone who fixes that for you. People under 60 usually don't do that for PCs.

    I don't recommend Arch to newbies, but I do prefer it because it's more robust: other distros patch stuff to make it easier, but those patches mean things are farther from the tested upstream version. Arch doesn't do that as much so I run into fewer bugs.

    But this view might be outdated. I just remember that before 2017 (when I installed my current Arch system) I constantly had problems with dist-upgrades in Ubuntu

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    No you're probably right, I've had my Ubuntu-based distro act up after upgrades, and I actually find it more random now than what it used to be like in the 2010s. My feeling is that Debian/Arch are better in this regard, and most newbies don't actually need bleeding-edge patches.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent