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[–] alyth@lemmy.world 184 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

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

[–] Macaroni_ninja@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just dont ask which distro your buddy thinks is the best. Thats some Matrix level red pill bullshit you are not ready for.

[–] overload@sopuli.xyz 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

We all know black-pilled Linux from scratch is the best. Gentoo is just a bit too bloated.

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 10 points 1 month ago

You self host your own Lemmy instance? Pfft, I self host my own package repository.

[–] Steamymoomilk@sh.itjust.works 24 points 1 month ago

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!!!!!

[–] JackbyDev@programming.dev 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

What if we kissed while Gentoo compiles? 👉👈 Haha, jk... Unless?

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

That's a long kiss 😳 N-not like I mind..

[–] gregor@lemmy.gregtech.eu 16 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Absolutely.

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

Like

  • 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recommend Linux mint, where the packages are rock solid and tested, and upgrades work pretty well, but it is also very outdated, limited and relies on XOrg?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?
[–] alyth@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable

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.

[–] cygnus@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

My experience with dnf is that it’s slow as molasses

Zypper: hold my beer (it will be warm and flat by the time I'm done)

[–] alyth@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Can't wait for Rypper, the drop-in Zypper replacement written in Rust

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 4 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I just say "I hate you" before I walk away

How dare they make me think

[–] CeeBee_Eh@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] boredsquirrel@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] shekau@lemmy.today 0 points 1 month ago

Avoid Ubuntu.