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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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    • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Jesus, you’re trying hard to be a dick, huh. Try harder.

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      • ChunkMcHorkle@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 and pass off other Foss projects as their own.

        Your quote, but when asked to name a better “easiest distro for Windows users” Fedora KDE was the best you could do.

        Somebody asked you a genuine question, looking for real information, and you just shat out the name of one of the more advanced distros out there.

        Hell yeah, try harder. People who ask genuine questions deserve genuine answers. Unless that’s just your best and you need pity.

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