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Linux mint = best beginner distro (lemmy.ml)
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Agreed. I was recently prepping a laptop to give to my mom, and planned to put Ubuntu on it since, y'know, it's "linux for human beings". I hadn't used Ubuntu Desktop in years, and was blown away by how unintuitive everything felt in the GUI. nothing behaved how I expected (this isn't to say it is inherently bad; this is just my experience).

Tried Linux Mint XFCE instead and was instantly relieved that it was a similar user experience to Windows (since that's typically going to make things easier for beginners).

It's also my go-to distro if I have a machine lying around that's in-between tasks and just needs a general-purpose OS for the moment.