I wish Linux was more mature. Even as a systems and network administrator with 10+ years of experience working with both Linux and Windows in an enterprise environment, my private desktop Linux installs still occasionally bork themselves for no good reason and require a reinstall. Linux just doesn’t like it when you do stuff with it.
I second this. People usually recommend Ubuntu for beginners which I can somewhat understand because it’s super easy to get started. But the downside is that you’ll most likely stay a beginner and don’t understand the absolute basics of a Linux based OS because, well, most of the time you don’t have to. Then you make a beginner’s mistake once and there you go.
That is not true. Getting into literally any Linux distro, unless it is a Fisher Price kiosk, allows you to learn plenty. My entry point was the legendary Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 6 years ago. If some elitist or horrible teacher or idiot told me to use Arch, Gentoo, or their favourite BS distro, I would have stayed a Windows NPC forever. Clearly, if you look at my knowledge, I would not have deserved it.
Ubuntu has the greatest community support, supports all kinds of install packages and has extremely good security and update support. It is the best entry point distro, and even Mint is harder than Ubuntu, since any distro that requires you to do anything undocumented or hardly documented is a turn off for beginner.
I have a Linux/Windows computing guide aimed at transitioning and/or dual boot usage with experience of almost 2 decades. https://lemmy.ml/post/511377
They are, if they recommend things to beginners without considering their perspective. Their own perspective on matters simply does not matter. This is why elitists and horrible teachers exist.
I wish Linux was more mature. Even as a systems and network administrator with 10+ years of experience working with both Linux and Windows in an enterprise environment, my private desktop Linux installs still occasionally bork themselves for no good reason and require a reinstall. Linux just doesn’t like it when you do stuff with it.
Ubuntu and other Ubuntu desktop variants tend to break very often for me. But this has nothing to do with Linux.
I use Arch Linux at home and never reainstalled it because its solid af. Unlike Windows or Ubuntu
I second this. People usually recommend Ubuntu for beginners which I can somewhat understand because it’s super easy to get started. But the downside is that you’ll most likely stay a beginner and don’t understand the absolute basics of a Linux based OS because, well, most of the time you don’t have to. Then you make a beginner’s mistake once and there you go.
That is not true. Getting into literally any Linux distro, unless it is a Fisher Price kiosk, allows you to learn plenty. My entry point was the legendary Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 6 years ago. If some elitist or horrible teacher or idiot told me to use Arch, Gentoo, or their favourite BS distro, I would have stayed a Windows NPC forever. Clearly, if you look at my knowledge, I would not have deserved it.
Ubuntu has the greatest community support, supports all kinds of install packages and has extremely good security and update support. It is the best entry point distro, and even Mint is harder than Ubuntu, since any distro that requires you to do anything undocumented or hardly documented is a turn off for beginner.
I have a Linux/Windows computing guide aimed at transitioning and/or dual boot usage with experience of almost 2 decades. https://lemmy.ml/post/511377
while I agree with you, calling people who recommend other distro elitists, horrible teachers, and idiots is pretty combative and rude.
They are, if they recommend things to beginners without considering their perspective. Their own perspective on matters simply does not matter. This is why elitists and horrible teachers exist.