I want to get some experience with Linux before win 10 goes end of support. I won’t be using this machine for work. Gaming primarily but also 3d printing and possibly some light piracy. Is there any reason not to install steam os?
Thanks in advance kind and wise nerds in my phone.
Debian is not a beginner distro. It requires some knowledge and advanced setup. Mint is the default for new users nowadays.
I dunno, I just installed 12 on a 32-bit oldster and it was smooth and painless. I guess you need apt but any linux distro is going to have a little bit of a learning bump.
I say any distro you want to try - go for it. You’ll likely overwrite it in a week or two anyway. In the process you’ll pick up the 1337 sk33lz and eventually find your flava.
LMAO, only because RTFM became a bad word.
You too can use debian, the only prerequisite is knowing how to read.
Well I personally think having to read documentation ,manually set up sudoers and add repos is worse for the first impression than installing a distro that mostly just works.
FYI: If you leave out root password on install, it instead sets your user up with sudo privileges.
How can a new user know that? Same with the domain name that Debian installer asks you to enter.
FWIW: I’m not arguing for or against Debian as a beginner friendly distribution. Just mentioning that you don’t have to set up sudo manually.
I installed Debian at least 3 times and don’t remember ever seeing that message.
It has for sure been there for at least a decade now. I think most people autopilot through OS installs.
You just install
sudoand add yourself to thesudogroup, or do you thinksudoshould be available to all users of the system by default?What repos do you need to add? If you don’t want to add a repo just download a release and chuck it on
$PATH(same for anappimage) or compile it yourself./configure; make -j$(nproc).I’m happy mint or pop or whatever exist, I don’t care which distro or even OS you use, but the above is beginner linux (including reading docs).
Nonfree is usually something people are going to want to enable (Nvidia, Steam, Media codecs, etc)
You can install a nonfree image, but a person could argue that needing to know which image is needed is already more advanced than other distributions.
Ive been a Debian user for more years than I want to think about. Its what I use the most, more so if derivatives are included. Even more if you count all the Debian VMs and LXCs.
I’d still recommend LMDE for new users. My comfort is not the same as new user comfort.