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Fedora or Mint for noob? (monero.town)
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A friend might let me install Linux on his secondary laptop he uses for university. He's not a tinkerer and wants something that just works.

Linux Mint is known for being very user-friendly and stable. Also easy to get help online.

However, in my opinion Mint seems rather outdated, both with its Windows-like workflow, default icons and look and also Xorg. When I tried it I had some screen stuttering I couldn't resolve, probably due to Xorg.

Instead, Fedora with GNOME is very elegant and always uses the newest technologies. It feels and looks actually nice and not outdated. But I'd have to install media codecs via terminal first which suggests that Fedora is for experienced users. Also university wifi eduroam doesn't work on Fedora for me because legacy TLS connection is not supported in Fedora (at least I couldn't get it to work). I'm at a different uni than him tho, so it might work there. In general, less help on the web for Fedora than Mint.

What do you think? (Btw, KDE is too convoluted in my opinion. Manjaro too, it breaks too often. I will not consider it.)

EDIT: From what I've gathered so far, I should probably install Mint. He can try Fedora with a live usb or on my laptop. If he prefers that then I can warn him that this may be less stable and ask what he wants.

I've only tried Ubuntu-based Mint, but LMDE is more future-proof so it will probably be that.

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[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally recommend Debian with xfce or lxqt

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I personally recommend Debian with xfce or lxqt

But OP does not what X11 desktops.

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then I recommend Enlightenment

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then I recommend Enlightenment

"The project is currently primarily supporting X11" -- Quote from http://www.enlightenment.org/

[–] kittenzrulz123@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What Wayland compositor do you prefer for newcomers? Kwin?

[–] woelkchen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

What Wayland compositor do you prefer for newcomers? Kwin?

While I'm a KDE person myself and I think that Steam Deck makes Plasma Desktop more widely known than other desktops, Gnome is fine for newcomers, possibly using either the Dash to Dock or Dash to Panel extension if they want a more traditional experience. (KWin's/Plasma's Wayland support will only be finalized by Plasma 6.x.)