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    [–] [email protected] 187 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (16 children)

    The best way to install Linux is to ask your buddy who knows Linux, they have been waiting for this question for years

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    Absolutely.

    But giving advice with Linux is hard. There are so many options.

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    • do I recommend Linux mint, where the packages are rock solid and tested, and upgrades work pretty well, but it is also very outdated, limited and relies on XOrg?
    • or Fedora Atomic Desktops, where there are some presets I would always need to change, and where I would always need to layer packages to have a base OS that I can live with? Which is rock solid and great, but the packages are still often too new, online tutorials will often be useless, and you may have some missing package support (okay Distrobox)
    • or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable, but it is more versatile and supports dual-booting (with Windows)
    • or Ubuntu, which is very opinionated and I would run unsnap and more, deviate from the defaults, but have more tested packages, I hope? But there will be no chance for a no-snap atomic/image-based variant?
    [–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

    Avoid Ubuntu.

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