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The new user experience (lemmy.world)
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[–] 53 points 7 months ago (18 children)

Choose the DE, not the distro.

... Well also don't take advanced distro either. Train on easy distros, then switch if you want

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  • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    so true

    so I was tinkering the other day and I found a great example of what arch doesn't do that makes it difficult for new users. it doesn't make default configuration files, even when you have it up and running just fine.

    so I'm like why isn't this working as I expected, reading some Ubuntu documents showing that someone edited their config and that fixes it. i go to the directory and it's only got a .example file. i copy it so it's a .config and remove the # from the line that is supposed to correct the behavior and what do you know, it's working now!

    that wouldn't be something for a new user to resolve and gave me a fresh understanding of the difference in approach and why arch shouldn't be a newbie system

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (6 children)

    I noped out of arch during setup. It expected me to partition the drive for swap/os/usr. It's not 1996, I'm not doing that today.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Swap is only necessary if you have low RAM or use most of your RAM in memory-heavy processes or multitasking.

    If you've got more RAM than you'll ever need, you don't need swap. Although, these days maybe that means swap will become more necessary again.

    Also, you don't need a swap partition, you can make a swapfile that works just as well.

    I don't know what the point of separate partitions for OS and userspace is, but whatevs...

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I don’t know what the point of separate partitions for OS and userspace is, but whatevs…

    Some folks like to be able to reinstall the OS while preserving /home. That's the only reason I've seen for doing separate partitions. (I'm not someone who does that, but it's the explanation I've seen)

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  • [–] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

    Please forgive my ignorance, what is a DE?
    Edit: Wait, is it desktop environment?

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    This is case in point though, there's no way a new Linux user is even going to consider that there is a choice of desktop environment. Of course different distributions is going to be the first one comes across as the most direct analog to Windows/macOS.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago (1 child)

    Either fedora and kde/gnome or Linux mint. The rest is noise.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    Fedora depends on your GPU. Some Nvidia cards are prone to breaking on updates.

    Nix os is great too but it's more of a power user/toy distro. Not recommended for the average person but definitely a good one if you're interested in it.

    Linux mint is the best starter distro, and perhaps the best veteran distro as well.

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