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.

  • @robotPersonEnglish
    1•1 year ago

    Manjaro KDE would be my pick based on my personal experience.

    • ashOPEnglish
      3•1 year ago

      I specifically mentioned Manjaro as not recommended because of all the silly stuff they did. It will most probably not break on you, but forgetting to renew your SSL certificate like 4 times in a row does not really instill confidence.

      • Past PollutionEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        It’s really sad that Manjaro has had those little issues. When it works it’s such a nice distro. I recommended it and a few other distros to several people back before I knew about the issues with Manjaro, and of the ones I recommended (Mint, Pop OS, Ubuntu, and Manjaro) it was definitely the consistent favorite of everyone that tried it.

        They definitely know how to turn the Linux desktop experience into a nice one, and if they could make Pamac less buggy, stop DDISing the AUR and letting their certificates expire, and maybe ditch the whole two week delay thing that breaks AUR dependencies, it’d probably be the best new user distro.

    • @[email protected]English
      1•1 year ago

      While I get why it’s not on the recommend pile I really think a rolling release distribution is a good idea for new people. I love fedora but being forced to upgrade at least once a year is not great. And I just tried to upgrade my xps which came with native Ubuntu and it bricked the system, took me 5 hours to recover it.

    • @[email protected]English
      -1•1 year ago

      100%. If this article is intended for beginners to Linux, Manjaro is the only option I’d recommend. (I like Xfce, but whatever.)