I do tend to explain DEs when someone asks for a distro recommendation, because yeah, I also think that it does make the biggest difference for desktop usage.
However:
- You can’t download an ISO for a DE. Noobs want to know what to download.
- Given that you can switch DEs relatively easily, the choice of distro can carry more weight.
- Depending on what kind of user they are, I do think the distro makes a difference. For example, generally I wouldn’t recommend Debian-based distros to a programmer. Or plain Arch to someone uninterested in technology.
Can you elaborate? That doesn’t make sense in my head.generally I wouldn’t recommend Debian-based distros to a programmer.Or plain Arch to someone uninterested in technology.Nevermind, I read that you would recommend it.
programmers tend to want to be as up to date as possible which isn’t the intended experience on debian and debian-based distros. Plain arch is can take effort and interest to maintain which wouldn’t make sense for someone uninterested as a whole.
I think it should be - any distro decent for beginners -> then choose/recommend DE.
Given that you can switch DEs relatively easily, the choice of distro can carry more weight.
For noobs, switching DE’s is switching distros, or at least downloading a different variant of your distro.
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Too much yelling.
Yes and no. Yes, graphically, you would like to use something that won’t make you despise your experience using a GNU/Linux distro. Some people can smoothly transition from a DE to another, or even use a TWM with no problems, but others are simply used to a single style, and that’s totally understandable.
But, trying to complement to what @Ephera@lemmy.ml said, each distro will have its way to handle a bunch of other stuff. You can feel amazing using Garuda Linux but somehow despise the AUR experience, or using something like Xubuntu but hating apt. I found myself loving Elementary but despising apt, but now I am using Pantheon on NixOS and I love it.
Maybe on Nick’s point, as we are talking about people being introduced to GNU/Linux, it is a very valid idea.
It forgets that for beginners, the distro and the desktop may be one in the same. A beginner isn’t going to install a distro and manually install a new desktop. It makes more sense to reccomend a distro with the best implementation of whatever desktop would be best for them, like Fedora GNOME, Linux Mint, or Xubuntu.
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On a side note, lemmy really needs a url preview limit, for instances like this in which the youtuber puts the entire video script in the description.
Strongly agree. Surprising that even YouTube allows descriptions that long.
Yep, the entire description should not be shown. Maybe hide the description in with a read more button?
What do you think?@dessalines@lemmy.ml
Ya I’d be good with that, feel free to open a PR for it.