I grew tired of bad “Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}” articles so I wrote one that I would consider useful myself when starting out.

  • @the16bitgamerEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I disagree with both since it depends on how the user wishes to use the OS.

    With Manjaro the package delay isn’t bad if you do not intend to use AUR. Out of the box its user friendly and has a GUI for everything I needed to configure when I was using it.

    But if you need software only on AUR, which is a lot. Then yeah Manjaro is bad with dependencies and updates (broked my install because of it)

    Meanwhile EvdeavourOS is too reliant on the terminal for me to call it beginner friendly. If it had the same level of GUIs for configurations and a Graphical Package installer available as an optional install then I’d give it another shot.

    For me a beginner is someone who knows there way around a computer (won’t confuse a web broswer with a OS), but isn’t familiar with a terminal or command line. So the less an distro relies on the terminal for OS functionality (installing software, updating the OS, etc.) The more beginner friendly it is.