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Canonical puts a lot of time and effort into making Ubuntu "just work" for most non-corner cases. That's the one I recommend to people as a "baby's first linux
by na85 11y ago
Canonical puts a lot of time and effort into making Ubuntu "just work" for most non-corner cases. That's the one I recommend to people as a "baby's first linux" even though I personally run Debian.
Debian Stable is of course rock-solid but it's also often sporting fairly old versions of software (firefox, etc) which can be offputting to the novice. Sid is my daily driver but I'm comfortable with things not working for short periods of time.
- superkuh 11y agoUnfortunately Canonical has stopped putting that time and effort into the desktop OS and is instead concentrating on mobile/tablet "convergence".
- mod 11y agoFortunately it's still a very stable desktop environment. Source: It's my everyday OS.
- superkuh 11y agoJust wait until 16 is released and they switch over the desktop repos to their in house package system for phones: Snappy. That said, existing Ubuntu releases that still use Debian style packages are what I'd recommend (and what I use) too.
- anonbanker 11y agoSnappy is the shark that Fonzie is jumping over. Happy days started to suck long before that point, but it was definitely the best time to jump ship if you hadn't already.