maybe reword the title, as this will inevitably lead to partisan turf wars in the vein of my-distro-can-beat-up-yalls-distro and such.
as to your thesis, yes, mint and ubuntu are important and needed as beginner-friendly it-just-works solutions that have things in place (like the mentioned driver manager) that are sorely needed for noobs. once they learn what’s what they are free to wander farther, as there’s essentially zero switching costs when moving from, say mint to fedora.
you’ll find low sympathy from experienced users as they can’t relate to people who are so much below their expertise level. case in point, a buncha people already mentioning package managers, ignoring the idea that a noob doesn’t know what that is.
I think the title is intended to lead to partisan turf wars.
I don’t necessarily agree with the beginner vs expert thing.
I’ve been using linux for many years but I certainly don’t have any magical expert knowledge or intuition. When I have driver trouble I google it and copy whatever commands seem sensible.
It’s probably better to say that some distros are more configurable from the desktop than others. As in, if you’re going to get grumpy about using the command line then mint or ubu might be your best choices.
That said, in my experience linux GUIs rarely expose all of the underlying features of whatever service they’re interacting with. (For example, gnomes disk management GUI).
maybe reword the title, as this will inevitably lead to partisan turf wars in the vein of my-distro-can-beat-up-yalls-distro and such.
as to your thesis, yes, mint and ubuntu are important and needed as beginner-friendly it-just-works solutions that have things in place (like the mentioned driver manager) that are sorely needed for noobs. once they learn what’s what they are free to wander farther, as there’s essentially zero switching costs when moving from, say mint to fedora.
you’ll find low sympathy from experienced users as they can’t relate to people who are so much below their expertise level. case in point, a buncha people already mentioning package managers, ignoring the idea that a noob doesn’t know what that is.
I think the title is intended to lead to partisan turf wars.
I don’t necessarily agree with the beginner vs expert thing.
I’ve been using linux for many years but I certainly don’t have any magical expert knowledge or intuition. When I have driver trouble I google it and copy whatever commands seem sensible.
It’s probably better to say that some distros are more configurable from the desktop than others. As in, if you’re going to get grumpy about using the command line then mint or ubu might be your best choices.
That said, in my experience linux GUIs rarely expose all of the underlying features of whatever service they’re interacting with. (For example, gnomes disk management GUI).