Guy in a room full of treasure with thinkpad laptops "I think I've found heaven"
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[–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

Idk, last time I tried to switch to Linux, I chose OpenSUSE and managed to brick my install by enabling encrypted grub. Now sure, on one hand it's skill issue to click a setting I did not fully understand. On the other hand, why is there a UI toggle that can brick my install without warning? I expected UI to be mostly safe and command line to be dangerous.

After that, I wanted a n00b friendly distro.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I think stability and a clean architecture are underrated qualities for "noob friendly" distros, while badly emulating windows is overrated. I also think you should give Fedora (plus rpm-fusion for non-free drivers and codecs) a try, it's worth it!

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I probably should have spent more time selecting a distro in the first place, but I don't have the patience to start over.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Fair, whatever works for you!

    Although from experience, most long-time Linux users have "started over" in different distros a couple of times. It's not as daunting as one might think, and it's also a decent learning experience to really understand how distros differ and (maybe more importantly), how they don't

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