Can anyone recommend a very beginner friendly Linux OS for someone who only knows what Linux is but doesn’t have experience with it and has never used anything but windows? Even Apple’s OS is confusing to me. But windows is trying to force this most recent terrible update every time we turn on the computer, and I’ve had enough.
(I told my husband about all the helpful comments and he sent me this, thinking that’s what everyone was explaining to me. I told him no, I know Linux isn’t an OS, I just didn’t know the OS’s are called distros. Cue the most confused face I’ve ever seen. He’s usually more tech savvy than I am, so I got an ego boost explaining it to him. Thanks everyone!)
@PagingDoctorLove@mugdad1 I’m thinking Ubuntu, Mint, or MX Linux. But any Linux will be at least a little different from Windows. It’s not hard to get used to, and it’s worth it.
If you have an old laptop you can try a few out and see what works, they’ll run faster than windows. If you’re on windows you might have access to Hyper-V Virtual Machine and then you can just run some Linux Distros in a virtual machine to see if they’re nice. You can even try moving some files into the VM and see if you can still work with them after a migration from windows.
Endeavour OS. It may be a bit more hands on than something like Ubuntu/Fedora but there are ways less abstractions, better document and community support that makes it simpler over all.
Pick up a note-taking application like Joplin or something and write down solutions to problems and you’ll be fine.
I’d recommend against Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint etc. tbh, they are simpler on the surface but there are no ing parts that make it more complex when things break.
Play around with distrobox and docker too, that makes a lot of stuff easier.
Can anyone recommend a very beginner friendly Linux OS for someone who only knows what Linux is but doesn’t have experience with it and has never used anything but windows? Even Apple’s OS is confusing to me. But windows is trying to force this most recent terrible update every time we turn on the computer, and I’ve had enough.
(I told my husband about all the helpful comments and he sent me this, thinking that’s what everyone was explaining to me. I told him no, I know Linux isn’t an OS, I just didn’t know the OS’s are called distros. Cue the most confused face I’ve ever seen. He’s usually more tech savvy than I am, so I got an ego boost explaining it to him. Thanks everyone!)
@PagingDoctorLove @mugdad1 I’m thinking Ubuntu, Mint, or MX Linux. But any Linux will be at least a little different from Windows. It’s not hard to get used to, and it’s worth it.
I like Kubuntu tbh
I didn’t like Mint all that much.
If you have an old laptop you can try a few out and see what works, they’ll run faster than windows. If you’re on windows you might have access to Hyper-V Virtual Machine and then you can just run some Linux Distros in a virtual machine to see if they’re nice. You can even try moving some files into the VM and see if you can still work with them after a migration from windows.
Endeavour OS. It may be a bit more hands on than something like Ubuntu/Fedora but there are ways less abstractions, better document and community support that makes it simpler over all.
Pick up a note-taking application like Joplin or something and write down solutions to problems and you’ll be fine.
I’d recommend against Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint etc. tbh, they are simpler on the surface but there are no ing parts that make it more complex when things break.
Play around with distrobox and docker too, that makes a lot of stuff easier.