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    [–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

    You missed the step where you tell everyone what distro you use, and that its the best.

    [–] c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

    Five minutes after you installed it and haven't tried anything else.

    [–] Marxine@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'd rather someone's first choice about Linux was which DE to use. This plays a way bigger part in first impressions.

    ~~The obvious choice is KDE, ofc~~

    [–] style99@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

    That's a strange way to spell Xfce.

    [–] atmur@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

    I totally agree, that's a way more important factor when you're starting out with Linux.

    ~~Gotta be Gnome though~~

    [–] Nefyedardu@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

    I was a huge distro hopper until I started using immutable distros. One thing no one tells beginners is that you do have to maintain your system more on Linux than other OSs because Linux gives you the rope to hang yourself with. I would always bloat my OS and things would get unruly, everything would slow down or become unstable and I would lose track of how I had everything set up. Immutability make things so much cleaner.

    Started with Ubuntu ended up with arch

    [–] zephr_c@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

    Okay, but when most people are looking for advice on which distro to use it's because they don't know what they want.

    [–] Andrew15_5@mander.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Searched, not googled. Google is bad, M'kay?

    ReferenceDrugs are bad, M'kay? Don't do drugs.