Actually Good Distro Recomendations for Beginners
reggie.re

I grew tired of shitty “Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}” articles so I wrote a blogpost, that I would personally consider helpful when I was starting out, so I can simply link it to people when they ask my opinion on a beginner distro.

Objective criticism is welcome and encouraged.

EDIT: there is a second post which I deleted and then made this one because I wanted to change the title, it did not get deleted for some reason but I cannot access it or interact with it, I guess I found a bug in lemmy :)

  • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    I’d argue that while not beginner friendly, Arch’s “difficult to install” reputation is a bit of a hold-over from the past seeing as archinstall exists on the iso and guides you through everything… but I’ve also not had it work successfully for me the few times I tried it and just had to install manually instead 🤦‍♂️ 🤣

    • ash@lemmy.fmhy.mlOPEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      Archinstall is great but also the wiki itself recommends manual install and I still think for someone who never touched Linux Calamares would be better.

      • EccTM@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        You’re probably right there. To me, Arch really seems like an endgame distro, for when you’ve tried enough options to know what you like and you just want to roll that without any cruft.