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[–] 36 points 8 months ago* (3 children)

There are many correct distro choices (except Ubuntu), but the only correct desktop environment is KDE Plasma.

If Cosmic keeps evolving, it could win me over.

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  • [–] 28 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    People go about it backwards when recommending/choosing. Beginners should be encouraged pick the desktop environment first (my KDE preference excluded the universal recommendation of Mint). Then the next decision should be stability vs fast updates (potential instability); and then ease of finding support for the inevitable problems they run into (beginners might find it easiest to find support for Debian based distros). Then you'll have a handful of options left and it really makes no difference which of those are picked.

    That being said, I had constant problems when I was starting and the distro with which I managed to get there best start was OpenSUSE Tumbleweed. Yet my most downvoted comment ever on Lemmy is suggesting Tumbleweed to beginners.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    KDE is good for a first go at Linux. I started with SUSE, ages ago, which was nice enough.

    But by now, I'm just more of a gnome fan. I don't know how that will change if I dig deeper into window management logic, but right now, it just works for me.

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