@Cal @ret I'd say absolutely yes, but that may depend on your expectations.
User friendly: Devuan, which I use, is based on Debian, and is just as easy to use. Ubuntu is also based on Debian, FWIW. When using Ubuntu, I tend to use the alternate console based installers as I find the GUI one too inflexible (I install to a raid10 mirror with LVM over it with encryption), and I think the text based one is easier to follow as well.
Community: it's been more helpful, IME. Less noise.
@rugk @ozzelot @f0x @zaire @kirby FWIW, shutdown with a time, as opposed to "shutdown -h now", does issue warnings. In fact, since I only use "now" at home, I had to look up the argument usage for specifying a time!
Just wait for the kid to learn he can CTRL+ALT+F1 and start X directly running his game or app with no window manager. Or yank the plug and boot from a USB based distro.
Blind folks, what would make you want to use, or try out, Linux?
Boosts okay.
@glyph (rant) em dash is a part of character sets I dislike, right along with curly quotes.
We have a dash. Want a longer one? Use two "--". Even longer "----". And those are right on the keyboard!
Quotes - who sees well enough to easily spot the difference between opening and closing curly/smart quotes? IMO, straight quotes and a back tick are more than sufficient. If I need to enclose text in something then we have these really clear ones already: [] {} ()
ASCII FTW here :-)
Devin Prater :blind:
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