I don’t understand the hate for Linux newbies using the “beginner’s” distros. Hell, I actively tell people looking to get into Linux to use a beginner distro and offer to set up their computer for them.
“Look, this is Linux mint, see how windows-y this looks and feels?”
They don’t need to know more than that, I’ll tell them if they look for installation instructions for something not in the software manager to follow the Debian or Ubuntu instructions and that they should run an update at least once a day but it isn’t painful.
I think the power users have ran into issues in the past and instead of considering the learning journey they went through, I think they say it’s better to shortcut to their solution and forgetting the longer learning process they took to get to where they are.
I don’t understand the hate for Linux newbies using the “beginner’s” distros. Hell, I actively tell people looking to get into Linux to use a beginner distro and offer to set up their computer for them.
“Look, this is Linux mint, see how windows-y this looks and feels?”
They don’t need to know more than that, I’ll tell them if they look for installation instructions for something not in the software manager to follow the Debian or Ubuntu instructions and that they should run an update at least once a day but it isn’t painful.
I think the power users have ran into issues in the past and instead of considering the learning journey they went through, I think they say it’s better to shortcut to their solution and forgetting the longer learning process they took to get to where they are.