Cachy has the Garuda mindset. Make Arch user friendly. I run it on a thinkpad and haven’t had any issues. It also has snapshots enabled like garuda, so if anything does break then rolling back is easy peasy. Great distro to try out!

ZorinOS, better than standard Ubuntu and more modern looking than Mint.

If u want to go Arch > Garuda or Cachy. Endeavour if u are one of the “its bloat” whishy washy purists.

Google and privacy in the same sentence… Lol

Gotta love how devs and engineers are supposed to be on the front lines of innovation and progression. But most of the it’s just moaning and calling the next gen dumb. 15 years ago the current devs would be called dumb for using Frameworks amd how it’s cheating since it’s not self written. Do your part and educate and guide the next gen instead of complaining about tech evolving and being used.

So now suddenly us lemmy linux tech nerds forgot about mass…🙄.

Unless that isn’t possible to run, then correct me pls

ZorinOS. Looks modern, works 96% of the time.

Checkout https://youtu.be/27O31t94w0Y

Luckily linux does 95% of the work for you nowadays! Follow a 15 min tutorial on youtube, and pick Zorin or Mint. No configuring drivers, no setting up grub. Modern distros truly are a Penguin blessing. Want software? Open de software center and click install!

It’s not moving to a different city or country lol. Upload what you need to a cloud and put linux on a usb and install. If this takes you longer than a week… Then idk.

Only those apps that aren’t linux compatible is a pain the ass

No not a lot. Was just distro hopping and tried bazzite. When I tried to install something that wans’t in the software centrum it indeed said to try sudo rpm-ostree install. But monkey brain already found it too much. So yeah… My bazzite views probaly aren’t the best lol. Have to give it a better try some day.

True true, still modern linux doesn’t break as easily as u frame it. And is user friendly enough for even non tech ppl. A user would have to go out of their way todo something weird in cli. As long as they are just installing games then not a whole lot can go wrong.

On bazzite if u want to install something that isn’t virtualized like flats, than u would have to dive more into cli. That instead of simply typing sudo apt install.

I like bazzite but the immutable aspect makes downloading some thing even more complicated for a newb. Truly can never go wrong with zorinos or mint

If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.

If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.

80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.

If you really don’t like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.