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Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?
Quite a few posts about selecting a distro to use. Maybe it’s time to make that link a little more prominent?
Yeah, I disagree. It’s the least subjective resource I can find as nobody asks the questions on that questionnaire here. I’d much prefer it if people used distrochooser and then shared their answers (e.g https://distrochooser.de/en/d5b60b6e6134/), wrote some extra stuff e.g “I want NVIDIA support because I want CUDA” or something, and based on that, we recommend distros. Instead of the herd mentality of “duh, linux mint stoopeed”
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“least subjective”? All it does is have a list of some distros with some qualities, which is the same level of subjectivity as anyone who lists qualities, not to mention most of the times you get a frick ton of results which doesn’t solve your problem. And yes, I’ve tried to use it when I was a newbie like nine months ago.
The suggested distros have advantages and disadvantages stated for the responses you gave. For example, I simulated being a newbie here: https://distrochooser.de/en/d5b60b6e6134/
Mint, Zorin, Ubuntu flavors, Pop!OS are on top. Then OpenSuse is listed and it has a caveat “May require additional configuration for gaming”. The ones below that all have such warnings and reasons why it wouldn’t recommend it e.g for Knoppix “Can be used for daily work, but is built for live-mode”.
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I look at it, and I have to scroll down 10 entries before I see something that isn’t all plus signs. Yes, you can count them, but at a glance it gives you choice paralysis. Not to mention how obnoxious seeing every single DE of Ubuntu is, and how distros like elementaryOS shouldn’t be chosen by anyone.