Hey I’m cell and my bf of nearly 2 years asked me to switch to Linux because it’s “obv way better then windows” (his words xd) and until now I always said no. I didn’t wanna learn how to navigate through a new distro all over again. I gave it some thought and decided to make it his “Christmas” present that I’m installing Linux on my laptop :3 if any of you can give me advice on what type of Linux, like arch, I should install and what I should be aware of would really help!
I tried a few distro over the years. They all had issues. Mint was the first one that “just worked” without fucking a round with terminal.
Put it on my parents PCs and they had 0 issues.
Fedora and KDE have more “polish” but in my experience the tradeoff is bug hunting and terminal use. Not something I wanted to get into moving to a new OS.
While this is purely anecdotal, Mint is the only distro I have ever consistently run into major hardware support problems. Others seem to confirm that experience, especially with newer hardware.
In addition to that, I absolutely loathe Cinnamon and Mint does not natively support KDE by design. It’s an awful recommendation for new users because it feels outdated and clanky and they are far more likely to run into compatibility problems than Fedora, which has always worked out of the box for everything I’ve tried, and I have tried it on quite a lot.
My opinions are opinions, but I strongly feel that steering new Linux users toward Mint sets a bad first impression.