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Linux Mint isn't the answer for Windows refugees anymore (www.xda-developers.com)

submitted 1 week ago by cm0002@literature.cafe to c/linux@programming.dev

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I've been having a big think over Linux distros. See, I've been looking back at my still-new Linux experience of nine months, and wondering how my own journey can help other people get started with FOSS operating systems. Whenever the topic of a Windows refugee-friendly OS came up, I would recommend Linux Mint because, first, it's the one everyone says, and second, it was the Linux OS that I started with, fresh off Windows.

I always follow that up with a comment about how you don't have to stick with Linux Mint if you don't want to. You can do what I did, which is to dip your toe into the Linux distro water and find something that suits you better. But if I'm setting up Linux Mint as "my first Linux distro," why not just skip the middleman and get right into the distros that have a bit more meat on them?

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[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 10 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Install the distro with the coolest default wallpapers.

[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hannah Montana Linux it is then.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Default? I think the first thing I did once I settled down with my current setup was find a background of my own liking, not something curated. And it's all mine; no one else has it.

For those that care, all zero of you, it's a bunch of frames from a cool star field animation, timed to rotate to the next every few seconds or so. Because I could not find anything that would simply play a video as a background, I made something that worked. If that's not Linux level, I don't know what is.

[–] UniversalBasicJustice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 week ago

I care about star field animations friend. Good work on making it work!

[–] JayGray91@piefed.social 3 points 1 week ago

Nyarch Linux it is then for me

[–] Malgas@beehaw.org 1 points 1 week ago

Ubuntu circa 2008 it is, then.