I would highly recommend Garuda Arch, takes the pain points out of Arch, more flavours than you can shake a stick at, forums are highly active with devs and mods responding quickly to issue posts.
Yeah I’m going to start with Mint. If that doesn’t satisfy my inner geek I’ll branch out. I’ve got several PC’s for different uses so I wouldn’t be opposed to eventually having different distros for each of those purposes.
Sounds to me like you would really enjoy the high customization and windows-like defaults of the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Unfortunately Mint doesn’t offer a KDE Plasma desktop version (although its available in its packages, its not recommended to install it on Mint). If Mint doesn’t satisfy you, maybe Kubuntu or Fedora KDE would be more up your alley.
I definitely would with Garuda. Like I said, they’ve removed basically all of the pain points of arch. I set my 70yr old dad up with Garuda, he’s been using MacOS mostly and windows for work for ages. The only thing I had to show him was how to open a terminal and type “sudo update” every few weeks. Everything else is as intuitive as any other Linux distro.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Do it.
I would highly recommend Garuda Arch, takes the pain points out of Arch, more flavours than you can shake a stick at, forums are highly active with devs and mods responding quickly to issue posts.
RedditIsDeddit@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m not sure I’d recommend any flavor of Arch as a first Linux OS
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Yeah I’m going to start with Mint. If that doesn’t satisfy my inner geek I’ll branch out. I’ve got several PC’s for different uses so I wouldn’t be opposed to eventually having different distros for each of those purposes.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Mint has the advantage where a lot of instructions are written with Debian or Ubuntu in mind, and thus it practically always works with Mint.
Piwix@lemm.ee 1 day ago
Sounds to me like you would really enjoy the high customization and windows-like defaults of the KDE Plasma desktop environment. Unfortunately Mint doesn’t offer a KDE Plasma desktop version (although its available in its packages, its not recommended to install it on Mint). If Mint doesn’t satisfy you, maybe Kubuntu or Fedora KDE would be more up your alley.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
I definitely would with Garuda. Like I said, they’ve removed basically all of the pain points of arch. I set my 70yr old dad up with Garuda, he’s been using MacOS mostly and windows for work for ages. The only thing I had to show him was how to open a terminal and type “sudo update” every few weeks. Everything else is as intuitive as any other Linux distro.
Sir_Kevin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I see! I’ll look into that for sure!