THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
THE YEAR OF THE LINUX DESKTOP
No, we have to post these when it’s the year of the Linux desktop
Yeah, you’re overthinking it. Installing a single program is a “use sparingly” situation.
Yeah, exactly. If a person asks for a recommendation they don’t trust their own skills enough to make their own decision or distrohop.
I feel like a website is needed to recommend a distro to people based on a very varied set of criteria that doesn’t just ask “Do you like stability over all? Debian”
Anybody that already has had a computer for 2 years and is coming from Windows will have almost no problems with Mint. Stability is top priority for first time Linux users and you need some visual guide with screenshots. Mint also has a great default look and setup for people coming from Windows. Mint is probably the best distro to put on your mom’s old laptop that is “getting slow” because of viruses.
I’d recommend KDE Neon or Ubuntu also depending on the situation but if I don’t know anything about the person and computer I’d say Mint.
Because most self hosted things are free already. It doesn’t apply to FOSS.
Apple is from the walled garden of Eden.
And set the bar super low for other tech companies
It’s a command provided by the OS to distrotop between ublue distros. You can basically hop between silverblue, Kionite and Bazzite with a single command.
Silverblue and Kionite are both Ublue distros, one has gnome and other KDE. One nice thing is that you can just swap between gnome and KDE without breaking anything via rebasing.
I’ve been running Bazzite based on silverblue on my desktop for remote gaming and dockering. Everything was amazing until I started doing some mid-level docker stuff because of the rigidity of the distro.
Podman largely works but since it’s rootless it won’t have access to mounted drives easily due to SELinux.
Mounting a drive automatically wasn’t intuitive either and I ended up editing the /etc/fstab manually.
Setting up a swapfile was also tedious, I needed more than 8GB so I made a 32GB swapfile but I still had to run a sudo command on startup since I’m not really confident with creating a systemd service on an immutable distro.
All in all I should have just gone for Nobara or a regular Fedora but that’s because I have a really edge use-case.
That being said I still highly recommend it. It’s stable, easy to “rebase-hop” and everything just works well and it’s very stable. I’d recommend it for pretty much anyone unless you’re going to do some heavy self hosting with multiple HDs.
“My sweet summer child” is a very weird way to start a comment response. It sounds condescending.
Anybody remember this site? Google used to be so good that anybody with half a brain could find a good result if they would just type a basic phrase into it.
You can always reinstall Windows and the license is registered to the motherboard so it’ll be fine.
You could alternatively buy a hard drive and keep your entire windows system for later just in case. :)
Buying a used desktop is very nice for these things. You can set up a steam gaming thing.
On Bazzite you could also swap to the gnome version for a bit without worrying. That one is still X11
Way to go Wayland
People have jinxed it 20 years in a row