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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[–] [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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