Amen. Even Arch shouldn’t be recommended to new, non-techie users. Much less stuff like NixOS, which has horrendous documentation.
As someone who uses Arch (btw) I would never recommend it for a beginner.
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
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.
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
Nix is very well documented… It’s just understanding it all.
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Is it one of the most vanilla flavors of Linux? Absolutely
it’s really not though. Distros like Debian, Fedora, and Slackware are a lot more vanilla. Linux Mint develops a lot of their own tools and rices the desktop a lot.
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When I think of a vanilla distros I think of the ones that ship packages straight from upstream with no or minimal changes. Mint is a good distro, but I wouldn’t call it vanilla. Also Mint would have to be mint flavored not vanilla :P
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As someone who started in the deep end back in 2001 (My first distro was a Slackware derivative) I actually enjoyed the satisfaction of trying to get XFree86 to work and seeing all the available command line tools. Of course this was back in the Windows 98 days so I was already used to going into MS-DOS mode. My first computer was a Commodore 64 as well so didn’t get mollycoddled at all when learning to use a computer.
no u! 😢
