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Yeah, I was surprised by that for the top recommendation on every "beginners linux" search. The front page is a soup of meaningless babble. The installation g

• sneed_chucker 2y ago
  Wow so hard. https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/install.html https://linuxmint-installation-guide.readthedocs.io/en/lates... Literally the same amount of effort and level of complexity as installing Windows.
  • happytoexplain 2y ago
    I agree with the parent. Mint is billed as the user-friendly distro, and maybe it is technically the most user-friendly distro (I don't know), but even this supposedly so-simple-it-warrants-bitter-sarcasm documentation you've linked starts out incomprehensible to the layman at paragraph one. I understand as a software person it's hard to have a generous perspective when trying to distinguish between "confusing only for the hopelessly computer illiterate" and "potentially confusing for regular computer users", but we should try to err toward giving people the benefit of the doubt.
    • sneed_chucker 2y ago
      > even this supposedly so-simple-it-warrants-bitter-sarcasm documentation you've linked starts out incomprehensible to the layman at paragraph one. If that's incomprehensible to someone, then they're probably not going to be installing any operating system by themselves, Linux, Windows, or otherwise.