I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint’s parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.
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Patnou@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Unless we are all techies we don’t have much to switch to.
PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world 1 month ago
shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
I don’t have a significant need to use a laptop or desktop as my phone is my primary computing device. With that said, I run Mint Debian Edition on my laptop. Just because I want my computer to work when I go to use it, even if it has been six months.
rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’m not a RedHat fan (actually very explicitly not a fan), but frankly Fedora with Gnome seems as problematic as Windows at worst, and very easy to install.
Ofiuco@piefed.ca 1 month ago
[deleted]rottingleaf@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Different version, probably.
I think the way to approach this is creating a PR that a simple (plenty of people autologin on Windows) functionality is hard to find. It’s also very valuable feedback for the developers, they usually have sort of tunnel vision and see completely different things as terribly important for users, while some really important (and maybe easy to do) just skip because in their skewed view it’s not pressing.
That could be replaced with proper QA and lots of focus groups and so on, but we live in 2025, nobody does things properly anymore.
WeebLife@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There’s plenty of tutorials on YouTube to walk you through installing all the major linux distros. And distros like mint are pretty streamlined now. It’s pretty straight forward. And there’s a good community here that is always willing to help.