Thanks for the great tips for newcomers, I completely agree with you. Things for newcomers: out of the box hardware support, third party (proprietary stuff too) support, stable release cycle, GUI centric workflow, out of the box experience that needs minimal tweaking, to name a few.
Ubuntu is a great suggestion for beginners- that’s what I install for friends and family as of now (I’m considering alternatives).
I personally have Ubuntu, Nixos, Arch (endeavouros) on different machines. Disclaimer: not a Linux newcomer, just found the meme funny.
Personally - Nixos has been the rabbithole: completely different beast, but the idea of declarative reproducible setups is too good to pass up on (I started playing with it a few weeks back).
Was too lazy to update the meme to say Nixos (just for me), and felt more folks would relate to the Linux newcomer rabbithole !
Complete agree: always mainstream distribution for new users - Fedora, opensuse tumbleweed, Ubuntu are all great choices.
There are a lot of distros that are great (for beginners and in general), but I recommended Ubuntu and only Ubuntu for two reasons:
It’s the only distro other than SteamOS that Valve officially supports (and there’s a reasonably decent chance folks wanting to try Linux are also gamers).
Even merely presenting choices incurs a cost in terms of increasing cognitive load, and I think it’s important to avoid inflicting more than is absolutely necessary on newbies. I think it’s very likely that analysis paralysis on distro choice is one if the biggest barriers to entry for Linux, and saying “X, Y, and Z are good options” when the person has no clue what the differences between them are or why they should care, instead of just straight-up saying “use X,” may be doing them a disservice.
Thanks for the great tips for newcomers, I completely agree with you. Things for newcomers: out of the box hardware support, third party (proprietary stuff too) support, stable release cycle, GUI centric workflow, out of the box experience that needs minimal tweaking, to name a few.
Ubuntu is a great suggestion for beginners- that’s what I install for friends and family as of now (I’m considering alternatives).
I personally have Ubuntu, Nixos, Arch (endeavouros) on different machines. Disclaimer: not a Linux newcomer, just found the meme funny.
Personally - Nixos has been the rabbithole: completely different beast, but the idea of declarative reproducible setups is too good to pass up on (I started playing with it a few weeks back).
Was too lazy to update the meme to say Nixos (just for me), and felt more folks would relate to the Linux newcomer rabbithole !
There are a lot of distros that are great (for beginners and in general), but I recommended Ubuntu and only Ubuntu for two reasons: