with the recent windows news, I wanna switch to Linux. I tried mint a few years ago and was annoyed and frustrated with multiple things, like having to input the password all the time and the general ammunt of constant trouble shooting and needing a tutorial for the most basic things.

I want a distro that:

  1. Is very user friendly, ideally not requiring a terminal
  2. Is hard to accidentally fuck up
  3. ideally doesn’t require a password for every input

I basically just use my laptop to browse the web, draw in krita and use ms office apps (have been getting used to open office lately)

What do y’all suggest?

  • BCsven@lemmy.ca
    18·
    13 hours ago

    Zorin is user friendly. You may still need to use a password for doing updates.

    If you game, then probably Bazzite.

    If you hate the command line you could try tumbleweed, you will have Yast2 GUI apps for everything yo want to alter on the system. And it has automatic snapshotting if out you mess things up, you can boot to a previous snapshot. Howeverits will require a password whenever you want to make system changes. And a learning curve compared to other distros.

    Not really getting away from typing a password, that’s the part that can keep malicious stuff out because it doesn’t have permission.

    • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
      9·
      13 hours ago

      As someone who uses and likes tumbleweed I don’t know if I would recommend it for inexperienced users. Once you start adding third party repositories for things like video codecs, dependency issues can get really nasty. Zypper will always offer you solutions to resolve them, but if you aren’t careful which one you select you can easily do stuff like accidentally remove your network driver which is a very annoying problem to have

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        3·
        11 hours ago

        Shhh don’t tell them about 3rd party repos. That’s why I somewhat disclaimed it with the Learning Curve, but having yast and snapper for me onboard as a new Linux user was very helpful.

        • TurboWafflz@lemmy.world
          1·
          10 hours ago

          Yeah but you kind of need codecs from packman or you’re going to have a bad time if you want like streaming or video calls. Unless more things are included out of the box now?

    • Quibblekrust@thelemmy.clubEnglish
      2·
      10 hours ago

      that’s the part that can keep malicious stuff out because it doesn’t have permission.

      All a malicious script has to do is alias sudo in your .bashrc, and you’re fucked. The script can do that without privileges. It takes surprisingly little to go from “I’m only running this script without privileges” to getting totally owned immediately after.

      • BCsven@lemmy.ca
        1·
        9 hours ago

        I guess that depends on distro, because sudo on OpenSUSE requires root password, so a script isn’t doing anything unless you enter the password

        • Björn@swg-empire.de
          1·
          3 hours ago

          The script would place its own version of sudo in your $PATH and wait for you to enter the password. Then it has it and can do what it likes with the information.

          Then it’d just tell you “wrong password” and forward you to the real sudo so that you can keep on working like nothing happened.

          Edit: Or even better, pass your own commands to take over the whole system to the real sudo.