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Not really. I’m using Kubuntu 24.04 LTS and it’s working fine

18 is pretty darn good

Just try it.

I did and I was pretty impressed. The way they modified the Gnome desktop with extensions is the way Gnome should’ve been in the first place. It’s actually usable.

I still don’t understand what you’re asking lol

Well they have a lot more resources for sure.

Hahahahahahaha yeah! I bought my first distro too in 2000, and it was also Mandrake. Yeah I fucked up a few times but was quickly up and running. I had just started my operating systems class in college where they taught us Linux with Red Hat so I was able to pick up quickly. By the end of the semester I was helping the class along with the teacher lol.

For sure. I downloaded it but tested it on a VM only.

It’s a great OS honestly

To be clear, my desktop works fine on Windows 11. But the general ratio of cool new features to egregious bullshit is low. I do not want to talk to my computer. I do not want to use OneDrive. I’m sure as hell not going to use Recall. I am tired of Windows trying to get me to use Edge, Edge trying to get me to use Bing, and everything trying to get me to use Copilot. I paid for an Office 365 subscription so I could edit Excel files. Then Office 365 turned into Microsoft 365 Copilot, and I tried to use it to open a Word document and it didn’t know how.

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TIL people still use Gentoo.

I installed it recently in a VM to check the latest release and the instalation process is not as user friendly as Mint.

For everything else though I guess you’re right. But Mint has more quality of life stuff.

Yeah Debian is stable, but it also doesn’t come with an easy to use app store or pre-installed codecs for multimedia.

The installation process isn’t exactly user friendly either. And if you plan to use BTRFS with Timeshift for easy snapshot creation, you have to do some pretty technical stuff.

And finally, there’s stable and stable. Linux Mint being Ubuntu based is already VERY stable, but you still get fairly recent packages. With Debian you have to wait much longer for the latest software.

I love KDE plasma, but I find that it has way too many customizations. I like Gnome’s approach of simplicity and integrating everything well. I just don’t like their default desktop paradigm. They tried to do something different and too simple and it pushed a lot of people away or required heavy customizations line Zorin did. Zorin desktop is what Gnome should’ve been.

It’s great, but it’s too complicated for people who are not as technologically literate as us.

While I agree with you, my question implied that Debian might not be the right choice for beginners. It’s not that easy to use compared to Mint that comes with many quality of life features which makes it the perfect introduction to Linux.

All the important software is there, you have all the necessary codecs to play the most popular media files, you have an easy to use software store with a friendly interface, and you don’t have any complicated concepts like immutable or atomic OS.

I’ve been dual booting since 2000 starting with Mandrake. Then Ubuntu and stuck with it or Xubuntu or Kununtu ever since.

I had been using win 10 a lot more when I eventually installed it. It was a great OS in my opinion. Until it wasn’t because Microshits decided to make it bad. I was getting angry with that and learned last year that it would reach EOL this October. So I booted in Linux and started experiencing with Steam and Proton and Bottles and I was blown away by how easy it had become and how well the games played. So last December I wiped the disk, installed Kubuntu 24.04 and it’s been a great experience ever since. Honestly it’s insane how easy it has become. To think I had to recompile my kernel to have all the features of my hardware back in the early 2000s. LoL!

I tried to convince my GF to move to Linux but she can’t due to her job. It’s complicated.

Why Debian? Why not Mint?

That’s become increasingly difficult.

Maybe due to students going back to schoool.

I put Ubuntu on mine with the vanilla Gnome desktop. (Not Ubuntu’s modified one) And it’s working so great! It’s an OG Surface Pro 1.