Do you know anyone in real life that has some experience with Linux, and is willing to help you out with it? If yes, use the same distribution (distro, or “OS”) as they do.
If not, as others said, Mint is a good start.
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They also devour my dreams.
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Portuguese: [ä’uɾ]. Basically how it’s spelled.
14·21 days agoRelated:
- Mustafa Suleyman*, Microsoft AI CEO, mindblown at people not being excited with his corpo-slop
- Pavan Davuluri, Windows chief, trying to address criticism without doing jack shit to fix what’s being criticised
- Microsoft still trying to push Edge down the users’ throats
“I don’t understand, why did users turn stupid out of blue? Those things used to know basic obedience! Now they can’t even follow simple orders like «be excited»! Let’s fire the User Taming Department and replace it with AI!” /hj
*aka “Suleyman the Chaoswrecker”. Not to be confused with “Suleiman the Lawgiver”, the Ottoman sultan from five centuries ago.
I wish the author had the courage to title the article “Frustrated Windows users are switching to Linux because of Microsoft’s Windows 11 tracking, logging, screen capturing, spying, high-jacking user data to Onedrive, resetting basic user settings”.
In this video (Odysee link), someone asks X11 users why they’re still using it in 2025. The main answers were
- DE or WM doesn’t support Wayland, or its Wayland session is currently WIP.
- [lack of] support for certain graphic tablets and their features.
- old hardware. Specially old nVidia GPUs.
- [If I got this right] Some software expects to be able to dictate window position, and Wayland doesn’t let it to.
- OpenBSD.
In the light of the above, I think GNOME’s decision to drop the X11 backend is a big “meh, who cares”. If you use GNOME you’re likely not in the first case; #2 and #3 boil down to hardware support, not something DE developers can interfere directly; I’m not sure on #4 and #5, however.
I did use the first LMDE for some time, and I loved it, it’s a great distro. I don’t recall why I went for the Ubuntu-based Mint later on, I think it was the PPAs?
From what I remember*, there was always some rough corner. Such as the wi-fi, or the graphics card. Sure, Stable was rock solid, but you always needed something from Testing; and Testing in general was overall less stable than Ubuntu or Mint.
*This was years ago, so it might be inaccurate as of 2025.
Mint is Ubuntu minus everything that makes Ubuntu annoying. That’s why I like it.
I considered to go back to Debian but… eh, I’m too old and impatient for that. Nowadays I mostly want things that work out of the box.
Even then, I think “check nearby people for what they use” shouldn’t be underestimated. Of course you wouldn’t tell them to use Neon itself, but if they’re using Kubuntu you’d probably be abler to help them than if they were to use, say, Mint, right?
My point is, that people underestimate the power of offline help, and having acquaintances who know the system well enough to help you out. And that matters a lot when picking your starting distro.