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    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.
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      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.

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        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.

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      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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    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.

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    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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    3 years ago

    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.

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      Strongly agree. Surprising that even YouTube allows descriptions that long.

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        Ya I’d be good with that, feel free to open a PR for it.