Yeah, may have been. I haven’t been following many distros too closely until the past ~2-3 years.

After thinking some more on this, I think it may actually be preferable to suggest “flavor of the week” distros as long as they have a well supported base distro. In fact, I just thought about something a graphic designer coworker brought up a while back – he had been looking into Linux and had been hearing good things about a distro I still haven’t heard of anywhere but from him. It does kinda look decent: https://getaurora.dev/en/. Given that its base is immutable: Universal Blue, it seems like a solid choice for someone like him, as long as he can run a few graphic-y apps he might wanna use, like Krita and Inkscape, maybe Gimp. I think folks who are younger than me, like this coworker, are more open to picking up new tools instead of just clinging to Adobe garbage no matter what, and that’s a really good thing for the FOSS ecosystem as a whole! May be a good idea to let folks like that have a distro more catered to their aesthetic sensibilities. The base distro matters most for sure.

Well said.

Yeah, I think that’s the thought process. And I’m not sure regarding the kernel version, but imo that’s the most important thing to stay relatively up to date on.

Next can we get a super cut of the CEO using teams to connect to a few different meetings? Sure it might be fine a couple times in a row but that software is such dogshit in general.

You might be right, I’m not even sure what his actual intelligence level is and I didn’t express myself well. I just don’t like the fuck. He was at his most charming when he did the video with Actual Linus™ and he still kind of got on my nerves. And unlike some others, I do not think his criticism of Linux is constructive. And unlike others, I do not find the gamer Nexus expose on him to be a dismissable hit piece, because to me it showed a shady corrupt business relationship with hardware companies and sloppy benchmarking. Not to mention the sexual harassment accusations, which I find credible.

I advise against dual booting from one drive anyhow. Not because it doesn’t work just fine in concept, but because windows literally nukes the boot data randomly sometimes. It’s fucking insane but it’s a real thing that happens. Seems like something you can only call malware but instead we call it windows.

Think of him what you want,

Will do. He keeps damaging the reputation of the only real alternative to windows and he might be getting paid by Microsoft to do it. The last time he did this was fucking absurd. The terminal basically told him not to type a command unless he absolutely knew well what he was doing and he did it anyway. I will always maintain that if a user reads a lengthy and terrifying warning and then proceeds without any research, they have invited data and OS loss.

we as a Linux community need to stop recommending flavors of the month.

That’s not my experience of what happens. In fact I think it’s a problem that 95% of the suggestions I see are for Mint, and, unpopular opinion, I actually think Mint kinda sucks.

we never tell newbies what to base their distro choice upon

I don’t find that to be true at all

He’s a moron but yeah copying and pasting a command is beyond normies. They would want to get the command from LLMs for one thing, which would almost guarantee it wouldn’t work.

Lemme guess, he runs into a very minor snag and then runs rm -rf -no-preserve-root / because ThAtS hOw NoRmAl UsErS wOuLd Do ThInGs.

I would’ve made it more minimal. Doesn’t look the best, doesn’t look the worst. Seems like a wasted opportunity.

You outed yourself, and continue to do so.

Whoops.

That’s some bone hurting juice right there.

Interesting. Thanks for explaining.

Yeah this is a huge problem now. Ai generated bullshit has ruined YouTube and it was already ruined by too much garbage.

You said the thread was packed full of bootlickers, and it clearly upset you greatly. Nice try to backpedal and project tho.

I guess it doesn’t matter that no one indicated any level of licking boots even if you exaggerate what they wrote. And barely anyone even said anything you could twist into that.

But your supreme innocence here is what matters though. My bad.

Beep beep beep inconvenient fact detected beep beep beep

Lol so -1 bootlickers is the right amount, got it. Yeah dude it’s on me that you’re raging at people for things they didn’t say, about an attitude you conjured out of thin air