I do like Mint, but now I’m thinking Bazzite might be better for a beginner or average user because all those configurations and default apps/packages meant to make gaming easier also trickles down to having things “just work” for a casual average PC user. 🤔
I’m writing this on Bazzite right now, it’s awesome, works great, and it’s true that the preinstalled apps and scripts are really useful for someone coming over from Windows… but not just for them! I’ve been a Linux user for maybe a couple of decades now and I find them very useful.
Bazzite is functional, has helpful utilities pre built in, and is pretty idiot proof for the average user, as compared to many other linux distros.
99% of it ‘just works’.
Use Bazaar, install flatpak, other useful stuff is pre-installed, use them, if you wanna do something fancier, documentation exists and is pretty good.
Beyond that, for the truly tech illiterate, you just need to make the icons and DE look the same as what they’re used to, and then grandma will probably be able to figure it out… I think you can fairly easily do this with a good number of linux distros, and there are some that are just designed around this concept.
Depends from usecase ,mint better when u need deal with some old hardware like old canon printers,scanners cause u can manually install firmware in root folders,I stopped liking bazzite because of switching from KDE appss on qt to gtk while they building it on KDE what point of this moves ,build then on gnome of something what use gtk based environment.That I switched to kinoite and just install software I needed ,installed it to my elderly people too ,installed codecs and that’s it
I do like Mint, but now I’m thinking Bazzite might be better for a beginner or average user because all those configurations and default apps/packages meant to make gaming easier also trickles down to having things “just work” for a casual average PC user. 🤔
I’m writing this on Bazzite right now, it’s awesome, works great, and it’s true that the preinstalled apps and scripts are really useful for someone coming over from Windows… but not just for them! I’ve been a Linux user for maybe a couple of decades now and I find them very useful.
Same boat, I’ve actually had a few friends inquire after seeing bazzite in action. For me personally, 0 issues across 3 devices so far with it.
I was gonna say this too.
Bazzite is functional, has helpful utilities pre built in, and is pretty idiot proof for the average user, as compared to many other linux distros.
99% of it ‘just works’.
Use Bazaar, install flatpak, other useful stuff is pre-installed, use them, if you wanna do something fancier, documentation exists and is pretty good.
Beyond that, for the truly tech illiterate, you just need to make the icons and DE look the same as what they’re used to, and then grandma will probably be able to figure it out… I think you can fairly easily do this with a good number of linux distros, and there are some that are just designed around this concept.
Depends from usecase ,mint better when u need deal with some old hardware like old canon printers,scanners cause u can manually install firmware in root folders,I stopped liking bazzite because of switching from KDE appss on qt to gtk while they building it on KDE what point of this moves ,build then on gnome of something what use gtk based environment.That I switched to kinoite and just install software I needed ,installed it to my elderly people too ,installed codecs and that’s it
I am going to mint.