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Gnome Ubuntu is the "gateway distro for new users"? I would never ever Recommend that to new users. Mint, popOS, and a few others for people coming from Windo
by phpisthebest 4y ago
Gnome Ubuntu is the "gateway distro for new users"? I would never ever Recommend that to new users.
Mint, popOS, and a few others for people coming from Windows would be the "gateway distro for new users"
gnome 3 is not for new users, back in the day, gnome 2.4 days maybe that was the case
- davrosthedalek 4y agoAt this point, the "gateway distro" for new users is running any of those in WSL. There is so much more buy-in if you can someone that they don't have to throw away their laptop and get one with this specific chip selection so that everything works. And if you can tell them that yes, of course, you can run your games at the same time, without fiddling, dual booting, or fear of getting banned for "cheats".
- CoolCold 4y agoThat probably is gateway for curious persons or who really wanna have Linux. Myself included, and people around me keep using WSL without any slight hint of swapping [back] to Linux Desktop. I even know in person the guy who is on WoA (Windows on Arm) with Surface and WSL - he had enough 5+ years of Gentoo experience. I've installed WSLg and disabled after ~ 20 minutes - just found nothing to run in GUI mode from Linux. Sure, others may, especially dev guys with JetBrains or whatever IDEs, but I literally couldn't remember anything beyond xeyes and konsole to play around with. Would be nice to see some stats from Microsoft on WSL auditory/usage.
- donkeybeer 4y agoThe other Ubuntu desktops should be fine. I recommend the Xfce one personally, it has everything thats needed of a sane gui and the xfce is not a RAM hog. However the snap nonsense also means I might have to consider Ubuntu no longer suitable to recommend if they continue down this path.