do I recommend Linux mint, where the packages are rock solid and tested, and upgrades work pretty well, but it is also very outdated, limited and relies on XOrg?
or Fedora Atomic Desktops, where there are some presets I would always need to change, and where I would always need to layer packages to have a base OS that I can live with? Which is rock solid and great, but the packages are still often too new, online tutorials will often be useless, and you may have some missing package support (okay Distrobox)
or traditional Fedora, which also has often unstable packages, dnf is often unusable, but it is more versatile and supports dual-booting (with Windows)
or Ubuntu, which is very opinionated and I would run unsnap and more, deviate from the defaults, but have more tested packages, I hope? But there will be no chance for a no-snap atomic/image-based variant?

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alyth 5 points 2 years ago

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cygnus 4 points 2 years ago

My experience with dnf is that it’s slow as molasses

Zypper: hold my beer (it will be warm and flat by the time I'm done)

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alyth 3 points 2 years ago

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boredsquirrel 4 points 2 years ago

My issue with dnf is the distro upgrade being completely broken.

While on Fedora Atomic, Distro upgrades are just another rebase. It is so much simpler and just works.

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CeeBee_Eh 2 points 2 years ago

The distro part is actually kinda easy. In my mind there's only a few distros that should ever be considered by a new user. Fedora, or Ubuntu/Mint/Pop!_OS. The last three are effectively the same thing under the hood and all of them will do the job.

The real hard question is which desktop environment. Plasma is generally my go to suggestion. I feel it follows a tried and true paradigm for UI and UX. It's incredibly polished, fast, and very full featured. The one that really sticks out as odd to me is gnome and is the one that I would never recommend. I wouldn't discourage, just not recommend.

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boredsquirrel 2 points 2 years ago

Plasma on Kubuntu is still outdated, so I would exclude all versions of Ubuntu LTS.

Fedora ships really fresh packages, I wouldnt want to use non-Atomic Fedora anymore.

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possiblylinux127 2 points 2 years ago

I just say "I hate you" before I walk away

How dare they make me think

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shekau 0 points 2 years ago

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FiskFisk33 131 points 2 years ago

sadly completely fake https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?geo=US&q=how%20to%20install%20linux

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crazyminner 114 points 2 years ago

Looks like it was originally a search for "Crowdstrike":

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possiblylinux127 11 points 2 years ago

They got publicity all right

I wonder if this was a stunt by the marketing team

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meekah 6 points 2 years ago

That would definitely be next level marketing. I wouldn't be surprised if this actually helped them long term.

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gregor 5 points 2 years ago

Wow there are a lot of such queries.

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boredsquirrel 2 points 2 years ago

I only get an error on that website.

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Kalcifer 57 points 2 years ago

Fake.

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WheatleyInc 56 points 2 years ago

The graph they used is actually the one for "CrowdStrike"

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GladiusB 8 points 2 years ago

I just thought it was a joke. I never thought the graph was real.

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Letstakealook 13 points 2 years ago

What happened on July 7th?

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paw 33 points 2 years ago

The crowdstrike f*-up is so bad it travels back in time. That's my best guess

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possiblylinux127 3 points 2 years ago

It isn't July 7th

Look at the graph closer

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Letstakealook 3 points 2 years ago

It isn't really marked much, so I'm going to assume it was the crowdstrike issue, lol.

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yetAnotherUser 5 points 2 years ago

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Marthirial 4 points 2 years ago

Have been wanting to freshen up my laptop and did it yesterday wiping W11 out and installing Kubuntu 24.

Have been using Linux for years but I know MSF will track how this mess compelled people to switch, so I did my tiny but meaningful part.

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pewgar_seemsimandroid 3 points 2 years ago

i just installed it like before i went to sleep

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