The Linux Distro Progression - Chris Titus Tech
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Date: 2022-03-21
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Cuttlefish
This is how I'd recommend Linux:
Beginners: -Thinking hurts my brain-
Linux Mint (Debian based)
MX Linux
Intermediate: -Let me tinker-
CentOS
Kali
Manjaro
Experts: -I want to learn everything, and be punished if I don't!-
Arch
BlackArch
Gentoo
I haven't really looked into Ubuntu recently or in depth, so I still have the impression that they're a new Windows. If you're asking about Linux, you probably don't want another Windows. So any great, user-friendly distro I recommend would be their Debian-based alternative to Ubuntu-based.
I also consider myself an intermediate user, and the expert distros I listed are ones that have peaked my interest but have never tried out -- you have to be a little crazy to be an expert in anything. As for the Intermediate distros, these I recommend as per specific interests in tinkering (Manjaro for more general tinkering).
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This is how I'd recommend Linux:
Beginners: -Thinking hurts my brain-
Linux Mint (Debian based)
MX Linux
Intermediate: -Let me tinker-
CentOS
Kali
Manjaro
Experts: -I want to learn everything, and be punished if I don't!-
Arch
BlackArch
Gentoo
I haven't really looked into Ubuntu recently or in depth, so I still have the impression that they're a new Windows. If you're asking about Linux, you probably don't want another Windows. So any great, user-friendly distro I recommend would be their Debian-based alternative to Ubuntu-based.
I also consider myself an intermediate user, and the expert distros I listed are ones that have peaked my interest but have never tried out -- you have to be a little crazy to be an expert in anything. As for the Intermediate distros, these I recommend as per specific interests in tinkering (Manjaro for more general tinkering).
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lowell
For Linux noobs(Welcome) Fedora doesn't have to use ONLY GNOME. There are several Fedora spins straight from Red Hat that default to other DE's. XFCE is a good one, and the one mentioned in the vid Cinnamon should be the default for ALL Windows refugees because it's basically GNOME setup like Windows7. You can try KDE if you want more buttons than you will ever possibly use, maybe you'll like it, I don't. And here's the real kicker - you can install them all at once and switch between them at will just by clicking an asterisk icon on the login screen. I'm typing this on a Fedora XFCE machine with GNOME, Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE installed. I jump between XFCE and Cinnamon. My CentOS7 box uses the default GNOME2.
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For Linux noobs(Welcome) Fedora doesn't have to use ONLY GNOME. There are several Fedora spins straight from Red Hat that default to other DE's. XFCE is a good one, and the one mentioned in the vid Cinnamon should be the default for ALL Windows refugees because it's basically GNOME setup like Windows7. You can try KDE if you want more buttons than you will ever possibly use, maybe you'll like it, I don't. And here's the real kicker - you can install them all at once and switch between them at will just by clicking an asterisk icon on the login screen. I'm typing this on a Fedora XFCE machine with GNOME, Cinnamon, XFCE, and MATE installed. I jump between XFCE and Cinnamon. My CentOS7 box uses the default GNOME2.
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zeveroare
Kinda funny... I started out with Suse 4.2, switched to slackware 3.5 and then Debian 2.2. Then switched back to win2K because it worked better for gaming on my dual pII-300 system.
You seem to think a distro that's -hard to install- is something for -advanced users-. Something like arch is just for people who have enough time to screw around with their system instead of it just working. Being a masochist does not make you -advanced- :-)
I'd say you start out with something like ubuntu or mint and then try arch, then when you get tired of crap and want something that just works, you stick with ubuntu/fedora/something like that.
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Kinda funny... I started out with Suse 4.2, switched to slackware 3.5 and then Debian 2.2. Then switched back to win2K because it worked better for gaming on my dual pII-300 system.
You seem to think a distro that's -hard to install- is something for -advanced users-. Something like arch is just for people who have enough time to screw around with their system instead of it just working. Being a masochist does not make you -advanced- :-)
I'd say you start out with something like ubuntu or mint and then try arch, then when you get tired of crap and want something that just works, you stick with ubuntu/fedora/something like that.
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yvrelna
Crazy people isn't Gentoo. It's Linux From Scratch.
Gentoo is actually not that difficult to install and setup for a more technically capable users. When I had my start on Linux, around the mid-2000s, after a couple years on Ubuntu I pretty much jumped from Ubuntu straight to Gentoo. It wasn't actually that hard, I learned a lot but it wasn't actually that bad, the guides are well written and they teach you a lot about how a Linux distro is built.
The main problem with Gentoo though, is that it turned your machine into a space warmer, due to all that compiling you have to do. Oh, and a lot of waiting for upgrades to finish.
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Crazy people isn't Gentoo. It's Linux From Scratch.
Gentoo is actually not that difficult to install and setup for a more technically capable users. When I had my start on Linux, around the mid-2000s, after a couple years on Ubuntu I pretty much jumped from Ubuntu straight to Gentoo. It wasn't actually that hard, I learned a lot but it wasn't actually that bad, the guides are well written and they teach you a lot about how a Linux distro is built.
The main problem with Gentoo though, is that it turned your machine into a space warmer, due to all that compiling you have to do. Oh, and a lot of waiting for upgrades to finish.
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Larry
Arch. Learn how to install it from Youtube or something, hopefully you'll screw something up and have to do it again.. and maybe again, so by the time you get it done, you both know more about it and feel some sort of accomplishment. Go for an encrypted UEFI install using UUIDs.. Install xorg and maybe plasma after that.. and you've got something really nice you feel invested in. I highly recommend it. After that, all other distros will seem simple. Either that or just go the easy route and install Manjaro. You'll still have an Arch-based setup with pacman and AUR. Good as well.
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Arch. Learn how to install it from Youtube or something, hopefully you'll screw something up and have to do it again.. and maybe again, so by the time you get it done, you both know more about it and feel some sort of accomplishment. Go for an encrypted UEFI install using UUIDs.. Install xorg and maybe plasma after that.. and you've got something really nice you feel invested in. I highly recommend it. After that, all other distros will seem simple. Either that or just go the easy route and install Manjaro. You'll still have an Arch-based setup with pacman and AUR. Good as well.
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David
Would linux mint be completely open source? When you say windows est???? Does this distro play well with wine??? I run mainly Dr Divx 1.0.6 and office 2007. Have little experience with wine except when I first herd of it about a decade ago. It did not do much of anything back then, atleast not where it was useful. Is there a Linux office that is better than ms office 2007 (does all the same things plus ??) ? is there a DivX encoder for Linux that does anamorphic video???
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Would linux mint be completely open source? When you say windows est???? Does this distro play well with wine??? I run mainly Dr Divx 1.0.6 and office 2007. Have little experience with wine except when I first herd of it about a decade ago. It did not do much of anything back then, atleast not where it was useful. Is there a Linux office that is better than ms office 2007 (does all the same things plus ??) ? is there a DivX encoder for Linux that does anamorphic video???
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Daniel
Still rocking Pop!_OS myself.
I used to really like Ubuntu until I found Linux Mint, then I switched to Ubuntu Mate after I had performance problems with early days of Cinnamon.
I really didn't like Gnome 3 for the longest time, but Pop!_OS allows me to enjoy it.
Plasma 5 was working well for me until KDE Neon updated to 18.04 and they broke the updater a few weeks later.
System76's hardware and software just works for me, so I will continue to use both.
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Still rocking Pop!_OS myself.
I used to really like Ubuntu until I found Linux Mint, then I switched to Ubuntu Mate after I had performance problems with early days of Cinnamon.
I really didn't like Gnome 3 for the longest time, but Pop!_OS allows me to enjoy it.
Plasma 5 was working well for me until KDE Neon updated to 18.04 and they broke the updater a few weeks later.
System76's hardware and software just works for me, so I will continue to use both.
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Eclipse
Can't game on Mint? Can't they merge Mint & Pop into the one -Big Mac- Linux for newbies to rule them all - maybe even with a KDE desktop to look the most like Windows 7? We've got to make a Mint gaming machine that has KDE baked in to look the most like home (Windows 7) and without ANY qualifications, say THAT is your saviour, it does everything, you'll never have to command line, and everything is where you thought it would be, even the App Store.
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Can't game on Mint? Can't they merge Mint & Pop into the one -Big Mac- Linux for newbies to rule them all - maybe even with a KDE desktop to look the most like Windows 7? We've got to make a Mint gaming machine that has KDE baked in to look the most like home (Windows 7) and without ANY qualifications, say THAT is your saviour, it does everything, you'll never have to command line, and everything is where you thought it would be, even the App Store.
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