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[–] UnPassive@lemmy.world 34 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Last weekend I talked my wife into trying Linux on her desktop on an extra SSD I had, she loves it. Loves that she can customize everything, says it's faster (especially boot time), we put it on her laptop last night

[–] oscar@programming.dev 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What distro did you go with? My friend is showing intrest in trying Linux but I'm not sure what to recommend him. I use more advanced distros myself but I want it to work well for him OOtB while also not requiring any tinkering. I'm think of either some ubuntu-flavour or fork, like Kubuntu or maybe Mint.

[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago

Mint and PopOS! are the ones I've heard thrown about for "Users First Distro" ever since Canonical decided to do... whatever the fuck it is they're doing to Ubuntu proper.

I'm using Mint now, and have exactly one complaint: I don't like the default Cinnamon Firefox icon so I changed it, but every time there's an update to Firefox it changes back. All things considered, that's nothing to worry about.

[–] Niteshade@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Can't go wrong with mint, I've been using it for years.