Caption: "When an average user who's new to Linux asks for recommendations and the usual discussion errupts".
Below two panels from an anime where first a girl holds up two grocery items (in this case two Linux distributions known to be very user friendly, Mint and Ubuntu). Then the guy holds up a single item that's NixOS, a highly technical distribution aimed at enthusiasts and professionals.
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[–] 17 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Does anyone really recommend Ubuntu these days? I think Mint has reigned supreme for years, at least for beginners.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago*

    I recommended Mint to my partner and she wasn't too enthusiastic about it after trying, I have Ubuntu on one of my laptops where she has a guest account and she actually prefers it even after hours of use so her new laptop is getting 24.04. I did do the diligence of explaining that Ubuntu is to Canonical as Firefox is to Mozilla, and why some Linux heads aren't a fan.

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  • [+] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 year ago

    It's funny to see so many different echochambers at play. 🤭 No offense of course.

    Mint is still by far the most popular distro, I even saw Goodwill selling computers with it now. Ubuntu is also widely used, apparently it's really popular in India(?). Meanwhile in hackspaces NixOS and Arch are super popular. Personally I like OpenSuse, therefore hear a lot about that family of distros. We're existing in a super diverse ecosystem.

    It's just annoying when people recommend stuff not because they think it's the best pick for the person who's asking, but because they like it best (I swear on my grave, I god damn saw people recommending NixOS for elders and Arch Linux for productivity environments that must be 100% stable). Therefore I made a meme about it.

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