Hey, so my friend asked me which distro i can recommend for him. He basically used Windows his whole life. The recent developments of Microsoft though seems to worry him, so he want to give Linux a try.

I myself use Linux since around one year, so i'm definitely far from being an expert and i don't really feel i have enough expertise to give him an appropriate answer. I use OpenSUSE Tumbleweed and love it, but i suppose it's not a good distro for him since he is not that tech affine and i suppose getting used to the terminal is a bit much too ask and could scare him away from the Linux experience.

So what im looking for is a distro, that is easy to use (for beginners & non techies; also not a rolling release) but is also good for Gaming (NVIDIA) and lightly everyday stuff. He uses his computer only for free time, not for his work.

I hope some people here have some helpful recommendations. I was thinking of maybe recommend Mint or Ubuntu, but i only used Ubuntu for a few days and don't really know much about it.

    • Aatube@kbin.social
      1·
      1 year ago

      You can install pamac for a GUI for the package manager. Do yay <packagename> to search for any package and install it; do yay (nothing else) to upgrade everything, and yay -Rcns <packagename> to remove stuff and all their unused dependencies. I also recommend chaoticAUR

      For the DE I recommend MATE but you can select any of the major ones in the installer

      Get synapse for a spotlight-like search; it uses the alt+space keybind by default

      The arch wiki is amazing