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The best way to install Linux is to ask your buddy who knows Linux, they have been waiting for this question for years
Just dont ask which distro your buddy thinks is the best. Thats some Matrix level red pill bullshit you are not ready for.
We all know black-pilled Linux from scratch is the best. Gentoo is just a bit too bloated.
You self host your own Lemmy instance? Pfft, I self host my own package repository.
THE TIME AS COMTH THE GREAT PROPHETCEY HAS BEEN FUFILLED
GIMME 20MINS I GOTTA GO GET MY VENTOY DRIVE WITH 200 ISO'S ON IT!!!!!
What if we kissed while Gentoo compiles? 👉👈 Haha, jk... Unless?
That's a long kiss 😳 N-not like I mind..
As that buddy who has been waiting for this question for years, I can confirm I was very excited when a friend asked me how to install it.
Absolutely.
But giving advice with Linux is hard. There are so many options.
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My experience with dnf is that it's slow as molasses but your average computer user isn't gonna install 10 new CLI apps per day /j
I've used Discover (dnf or flatpack backend) and you can install just about any software with 1 click. It takes a minute to install but that's fine.
My issue with dnf is the distro upgrade being completely broken.
While on Fedora Atomic, Distro upgrades are just another rebase. It is so much simpler and just works.
Zypper: hold my beer (it will be warm and flat by the time I'm done)
Can't wait for Rypper, the drop-in Zypper replacement written in Rust
I just say "I hate you" before I walk away
How dare they make me think
The distro part is actually kinda easy. In my mind there's only a few distros that should ever be considered by a new user. Fedora, or Ubuntu/Mint/Pop!_OS. The last three are effectively the same thing under the hood and all of them will do the job.
The real hard question is which desktop environment. Plasma is generally my go to suggestion. I feel it follows a tried and true paradigm for UI and UX. It's incredibly polished, fast, and very full featured. The one that really sticks out as odd to me is gnome and is the one that I would never recommend. I wouldn't discourage, just not recommend.
Plasma on Kubuntu is still outdated, so I would exclude all versions of Ubuntu LTS.
Fedora ships really fresh packages, I wouldnt want to use non-Atomic Fedora anymore.
Avoid Ubuntu.