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Rustmilian@lemmy.world to Linux@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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Stop Recommending Niche Linux Distros!

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Stop Recommending Niche Linux Distros!

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There are tons of Linux distros, some might say way too many Linux distros and if I'm being honest you shouldn't be recommending most of those distros, not b...

“There are tons of Linux distros, some might say way too many Linux distros and if I’m being honest you shouldn’t be recommending most of those distros, not because they’re bad but because there’s basically no documentation.”

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    Amen. Even Arch shouldn’t be recommended to new, non-techie users. Much less stuff like NixOS, which has horrendous documentation.

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      As someone who uses Arch (btw) I would never recommend it for a beginner.

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        I’ve heard that the Arch wiki is fairly helpful for people using other distros though. Haven’t made the jump quite yet. Trying to figure out what reasonably cheap monitor to get.

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            While I do have an HP2000 from 2010, I also just built a gaming tower that has nothing but a BIOS. I just need a decent and fairly cheap monitor. Suggestions are welcome, as I’m somewhat lost as to whether a tablet or an actual monitor is the best solution here.

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        Thank you for not recommending to throw newbies into the deep end 👍 You’re a rare gem

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        On the other hand, Manjaro asked me to preserve contents of my /home partition automatically, and that used to be the most difficult part of my Ubuntu reinstallations.

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      I had no opinion on nixos until I got sick of reading about it in so many places unprompted. I’m assuming that’s how it was for arch but that was before I used Linux so wasn’t around any spaces that talked about it

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      Nix is very well documented… It’s just understanding it all.

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