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What would you recommend instead of Ubuntu for beginners?

• akho 3y ago
  (not the person you’re asking, but I have an opinion) For beginners who want to learn how things work — Slackware. That distribution guarantees the beginner will soon graduate to a non-beginner status, or understand that it’s not for them. It’s a really quick result. Ubuntu et al. just make it so people stay beginners forever. I really like the Arch trend among beginners; it doesn’t quite have the educational value of Slackware, but at least they try. For people who just want to use a computer for normal things I’d recommend an immutable distribution that doesn’t break (Fedora Silverblue / openSUSE Aeon) and a friend who can help (ideally — with remote access). The second component is essential with any OS.
  • frfl 3y ago
    Can you explain more about Slackware, in what sense does it help you graduate quickly and provide educational value?
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    • akho 3y ago
      It's the simplest thing you can do, short of LFS. Packages are vanilla; the user is expected to do all configuration in the way intended by upstream. There is no dependency resolution for packages; you typically do a full install of the distro, and install any extras via the method declared by upstream. Nothing is obscured, no hands are held.
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• Adverblessly 3y ago
  That's a great question that I don't know how to answer since I haven't been on the market for a beginner Linux for a while :) If a tech-oriented friend asked for a recommendation I'd recommend EndeavourOS because of the rolling release and great documentation, but also because I could go over the pros and cons with them in person and make sure they are ready for it and because I know they'd have at least one friend who could help them out when in trouble :)