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I don't like the idea of such charts, they take stereotypes about distros and squash together. Distro is just a package manager, software repository, preinstalled software and community doing additional patches. Better idea is just case by case basic.
When we're talking about setting someone up with a OS & DE that 'just works', all of those are extremely relevant - some of the most relevant aspects to start off, I'd argue.
I'm a cool grandpa with old hardware.
Definitely mint!
Where can I read about dual booting with EFI? My motherboard is ancient and my next build will be EFI. With BIOS you install Windows then Linux because Windows will fuck the MBR. What's the process for EFI?
Mostly the same. It's unnecessary, but I highly recommend having a separate Windows and Linux drive if you can. I've seen friends have both their Windows and Linux installs fucked up by dual booting, although my friends are idiots so ymmv. It's definitely doable and can be done safely on the same drive, but Windows doesn't like to play nice. Honestly, it should be considered anti-competitive behaviour as I don't know very many people who gave Windows permission to delete their data but it goes ahead and does so anyways.
When I built my PC the "meta" (lol) was to have an SSD for the OS and a separate HDD for games. With NVME drives it seems easy to get massive and fast drives for cheap. So yeah, I think two should be easy.
It's a lot easier because you don't have to play around with EFI stuff at all. Windows gets its drive and it's EFI partition, Linux gets its own pair. Et voila, much less crossover and issues.
Is the way it boots into grub and you can select Linux or Windows the same?
I haven't personally done it, but I believe so based on my friend's experience. I'd read the arch wiki, they surely have a guide on it for EFI.