Yeah, may have been. I haven’t been following many distros too closely until the past ~2-3 years.

After thinking some more on this, I think it may actually be preferable to suggest “flavor of the week” distros as long as they have a well supported base distro. In fact, I just thought about something a graphic designer coworker brought up a while back – he had been looking into Linux and had been hearing good things about a distro I still haven’t heard of anywhere but from him. It does kinda look decent: https://getaurora.dev/en/. Given that its base is immutable: Universal Blue, it seems like a solid choice for someone like him, as long as he can run a few graphic-y apps he might wanna use, like Krita and Inkscape, maybe Gimp. I think folks who are younger than me, like this coworker, are more open to picking up new tools instead of just clinging to Adobe garbage no matter what, and that’s a really good thing for the FOSS ecosystem as a whole! May be a good idea to let folks like that have a distro more catered to their aesthetic sensibilities. The base distro matters most for sure.

Well said.

Yeah, I think that’s the thought process. And I’m not sure regarding the kernel version, but imo that’s the most important thing to stay relatively up to date on.

You might be right, I’m not even sure what his actual intelligence level is and I didn’t express myself well. I just don’t like the fuck. He was at his most charming when he did the video with Actual Linus™ and he still kind of got on my nerves. And unlike some others, I do not think his criticism of Linux is constructive. And unlike others, I do not find the gamer Nexus expose on him to be a dismissable hit piece, because to me it showed a shady corrupt business relationship with hardware companies and sloppy benchmarking. Not to mention the sexual harassment accusations, which I find credible.

I advise against dual booting from one drive anyhow. Not because it doesn’t work just fine in concept, but because windows literally nukes the boot data randomly sometimes. It’s fucking insane but it’s a real thing that happens. Seems like something you can only call malware but instead we call it windows.

Think of him what you want,

Will do. He keeps damaging the reputation of the only real alternative to windows and he might be getting paid by Microsoft to do it. The last time he did this was fucking absurd. The terminal basically told him not to type a command unless he absolutely knew well what he was doing and he did it anyway. I will always maintain that if a user reads a lengthy and terrifying warning and then proceeds without any research, they have invited data and OS loss.

we as a Linux community need to stop recommending flavors of the month.

That’s not my experience of what happens. In fact I think it’s a problem that 95% of the suggestions I see are for Mint, and, unpopular opinion, I actually think Mint kinda sucks.

we never tell newbies what to base their distro choice upon

I don’t find that to be true at all

He’s a moron but yeah copying and pasting a command is beyond normies. They would want to get the command from LLMs for one thing, which would almost guarantee it wouldn’t work.

Lemme guess, he runs into a very minor snag and then runs rm -rf -no-preserve-root / because ThAtS hOw NoRmAl UsErS wOuLd Do ThInGs.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining.

Yeah this is a huge problem now. Ai generated bullshit has ruined YouTube and it was already ruined by too much garbage.

Literally what are you talking about?

“The deep state” is a conspiracy theory for morons, everything about Epstein has been common knowledge for a long time.

You’re literally trying to imply that most conspiracy theories are real but most people are normally too stupid to know about them? What even is this post?

Than*

To be fair, a lot of bluetooth headphone problems i had on my work laptop was just that other terrible Microslop product.

What is any of this?

The way these tools are designed, typically unless something goes wrong you need to understand basically none of it. And if something goes wrong, the resulting error messages normally at least give you something to search for in order to understand more

I’m no statistician but this seems within margin of error to me.

Yeah, I hate Apple a lot but I am not willing to turn off my brain about it.

Yeah great point. In Hollywood they use wine. Definitely not ubiquitously all-Mac shops everywhere, yeah definitely not that. Every media company definitely uses all Linux lmao