I'm starting to think Linus from LTT is either uncommitted to GNU/Linux or doing whatever he can to drum up controversy and revenue.
The dude had the godfather in his shop, watched him install Fedora because he famously hates screwing with distros that don't just work, and still proceeds to use PopOS (with beta COSMIC) again.
I've been using this stuff for almost two decades, almost exclusively with the exception of niche school requirements. Just stick to the grandaddy distros if you're new. Install the shit you need. You don't need a "gaming" or this or that distro. Expand into the other stuff LATER if you want to.
Fedora
Debian
Arch (if you really want to).
Choose whichever desktop environment you prefer on those three (KDE, GNOME, TWM, etc).
Pretty much everything else is based on these anyway, with others based on distros that are based on those distros. Things can get really goofy for a noob.
There are very few niche exceptions (like Qubes, based on Fedora) that a noob likely wants outside of the those three. There are plenty of good options (some not based on these distros), but that seems to be a big part of the problem for newcomers. Even I've gotten to the point where I'm tired of fucking with issues in the hundreds of other options.
There's also nothing wrong with easing into the ecosystem. People don't have to try this stuff on the fly, on every machine, in the most asinine way possible (at a LAN event). LTT could have done this whole thing in a better way. But would that pay as well?
The dude had the godfather in his shop, watched him install Fedora because he famously hates screwing with distros that don't just work, and still proceeds to use PopOS (with beta COSMIC) again.
I've been using this stuff for almost two decades, almost exclusively with the exception of niche school requirements. Just stick to the grandaddy distros if you're new. Install the shit you need. You don't need a "gaming" or this or that distro. Expand into the other stuff LATER if you want to.
Fedora
Debian
Arch (if you really want to).
Choose whichever desktop environment you prefer on those three (KDE, GNOME, TWM, etc).
Pretty much everything else is based on these anyway, with others based on distros that are based on those distros. Things can get really goofy for a noob.
There are very few niche exceptions (like Qubes, based on Fedora) that a noob likely wants outside of the those three. There are plenty of good options (some not based on these distros), but that seems to be a big part of the problem for newcomers. Even I've gotten to the point where I'm tired of fucking with issues in the hundreds of other options.
There's also nothing wrong with easing into the ecosystem. People don't have to try this stuff on the fly, on every machine, in the most asinine way possible (at a LAN event). LTT could have done this whole thing in a better way. But would that pay as well?
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