Can we please, PLEASE for gods sake just all agree that arch is not and will never be a good beginner distro no matter how many times you fork it?
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If that is the case, that's a weird way to think. I mean, if I was using Windows and one app stopped working, I wouldn't blame that on Windows, I would just assume an issue with that particular app being incompatible with an update.
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At least, my definition of my system breaking is either it won't boot at all, or it won't boot into the DE. Even then, not booting could be a broken bootloader (not a broken system) which is usually straightforward to fix. -
Your main issue with Linux is that it doesn't help you pirate proprietary software made for another OS?
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Has this kid installed Linux before? Or at least some tech background?
No. I sat behind her and encouraged her to read the prompts in their entirety. She asked questions (like the difference between sys/data partitions, etc), that's basically it. I maintain that if a child can do it, anyone can. People don't read as well as they should.
Even without it, you know kids learn really well, right? Can you say the same about a 40 year old?
This is the worst excuse in the history of excuses... Quite literally pathetic.
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Now this I can agree with.
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sometimes nvidia drivers are in a state that breaks display reinit on wake from sleep
That happens so often that I've just bound a hotkey in Hyprland to poke my monitors config (toggling VRR off and on again) in order to force a mode change and wake up the display.
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Debian welcomes you
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Yeah, I would say broken if it wont boot to a normal userspace. Like if you need to insert a recovery tool, or even just login as root and unfuck something before you can get your X/Wayland session up, or if applications start crashing because toolFoo has some critical bug.
But the last time that happened was on Debian when I tried to write a fstab file manually without reading the manual. Also this was the era of CD drives and no multi PC households. Learned a valuable lesson on the ride back from the library, printed documentation in hand haha.
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And nice gui apps, default settings, nice community and cool branding.
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It's the best beginner distro for those beginners who want to learn about linux.
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That's why you shouldn't Frankenstein it
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EndeavourOS is the best
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Debian is the best distro for newbies, it may require setup and reading some documentation but afterwards you get a stable distro.
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My other thought was "obnoxious American tourists," but the bacon thing sealed it.
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This is the worst excuse in the history of excuses... Quite literally pathetic.
Then you're just an ablist who thinks everybody is the same. Go be a motivator or something.
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Not every kid will be able to do this. Most kids are so used to phone apps just installing and working they haven't built tech curiosity skills. And from the teachers in my family, the current 9 years olds struggle with reading and thinking skills
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Those guys should just role with a Tumbleweed
No scary terminal required
Just do not get scared by YaST
And don’t forget Packman repo
And always use either flatpak or search here to find “single click” file that needs to be double clicked (lol) to install it using YaST
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The level of disillusion in the thread is insane. At no point in time is it a good idea to recommend Arch and it's derivatives to Linux newbies. They will 100% wreck their install in the first two weeks. Even I, as a pretty experienced user had to wipe my arch install after failed update attempts, luckily I had a separate home partition. Anything else like fedora or tumbleweed will provide packages that are very up to date, but that are also tested. For example I don't fear that updating my fedora install will completely brick the networking of my system like what happened to me on arch.
Ironically I wouldn't recommend any Ubuntu derivatives as for some reason, every single time I've installed Ubuntu or one of its variants like PopOS they ended up messed up in some way or another, albeit never as critical as Arch did to me numerous times. Probably some kind of PPA issues that make the system weird because it's always the fault of PPAs
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MX is better than Mint.
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Newbies can not handle apt and just random deb they find in the internet and wonder why linux is so tedious to update
Most noobs I know did not understand what repo management means and are just copy pasting terminal cammands like a madlad or running random bash script with sudo because the developer thought it was the easiest way to get noobs to add their repo
I prefer giving noobs a single place of truth, if no flatpak available, like:
https://software.opensuse.org/packages
Or
AUR
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that, or having good documentation could be a requirement
