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Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’m sick and tired about hearing about Zorinn when there’s a dozen excellent Linux distros that aren’t derivative trash that astroturf social media.

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  • Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    damn, okay. I literally just looked up easiest distros for windows users. Care to recommend a better one?

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    • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I’d be surprised if he does. If he’s “sick and tired” of hearing about Zorin, it’s because Zorin is getting a lot of deservedly good reviews from the Windows crowd right now. If it really were ass he’d have nothing to say about it. The only social media I’m on is Lemmy, and I tried Zorin because it was highly ranked on Distrowatch, so if people are getting “astroturfed” elsewhere it’s news to me.

      But you should know I tried over twenty (conservative estimate) distros before I settled on Zorin. USB drives are cheap, and you can try as many distros as you like without ever having to install one. Don’t take my word for it, nor his: buy a handful of USB drives, create some LiveUSBs and start trying out whatever distros catch your attention. I found distrowatch.com to be a good front page to the distro world, with rankings and extremely detailed reviews: start there if you’re looking for a fairly exhaustive list of what’s out there.

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      • Honytawk@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        It is one of the problems with Linux and why it will take a very long time if it ever would become mainstream.

        Even the Linux users can’t agree on what distro to recommend.

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      • Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        i appreciate it!

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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Fedora.

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      • ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Nothing against Fedora KDE, it’s the best of the best, but it is hardly the easiest for a noob to Linux: just the install process alone requires a working understanding of the Linux filesystem and partitioning if you’re not using the entire disk space, you have to understand root vs sudo, god help you if you want to encrypt a disk, and there’s a lot more CLI at every step than other distros. Try harder.

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• ProgrammingSocks@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’d say stay away from niche distros unless you understand what you’re getting into. I’d recommend Mint over Zorin.

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  • Victoriathecompact@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    thanks!

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• 1984@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Its a great starter distro for windows users.

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• ChunkMcHorkle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Love it. Just wrote a separate comment about it. I ran the free versions for over a year, then decided to go to paid just to support the project. Paid gives you GUI for appearance adjustments and desktop “personalization” but not a whole lot else; other than superficials like that, under the hood the free version is exactly the same. I can’t remember what the Zorin folks say about it, get the details directly from them of course, but IMO don’t feel like you have to buy the paid version to get a true taste of how it will work for you.

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