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Never ending #nerdsnipe !

I chase friends and family down (I have non to semi technical 5 people who use Linux for years now).

Unfortunately… They don’t have to dive into the rabbit hole .I do… to make their flows seamless.

They’ve been stable for a long time though.

Linux is perfectly fine for GUI users. It’s really great for most common use cases. You might have issues with games (or so do I’ve heard), but I’m not a gamer and don’t know much about this… Steam has helped make games on Linux a lot better. I just play supertux or supertuxcart or mahjong once in a blue moon and am happy.

Most things work perfectly - stick to Ubuntu or Fedora or opensuse. Once you get the hang of things, things actually feel better on the Linux desktop:

• much faster than Windows
• no tracking
• highly customizable
• if you ever get into it, you can script your setup to be easily replicable across machines

Things that you’ll have to fight

• fingerprint scanners - only a small subset work. My Dell latitude scanner works perfectly though.
• some printers might need manual driver download/install
• some software is only built for Windows (less and less of those these days, unless you’re doing something specialized)

Nah, I think if you used a distro like mint on must hardware your experience is completely reasonable.

I started playing around with Nixos (seasoned Linux user)… That’s a real hole though. Not hard. Just different. And weird. Very cool, but still quite a bit rough around the edges.

Thanks for the great tips for newcomers, I completely agree with you. Things for newcomers: out of the box hardware support, third party (proprietary stuff too) support, stable release cycle, GUI centric workflow, out of the box experience that needs minimal tweaking, to name a few.

Ubuntu is a great suggestion for beginners- that’s what I install for friends and family as of now (I’m considering alternatives).

I personally have Ubuntu, Nixos, Arch (endeavouros) on different machines. Disclaimer: not a Linux newcomer, just found the meme funny.

Personally - Nixos has been the rabbithole: completely different beast, but the idea of declarative reproducible setups is too good to pass up on (I started playing with it a few weeks back).

Was too lazy to update the meme to say Nixos (just for me), and felt more folks would relate to the Linux newcomer rabbithole !

Neovim plugin+vscodium/vscode are great

Layers upon layers of vimception!