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If you were to install Linux on a laptop for someone, what distro would you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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My head tells me Linux Mint, but my heart says listen to your head. Why is this hard? 😂

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What is the persons skill level and are both of you OK with you picking up the slack?

[–] wuphysics87@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

She's a pretty proficient windows user who mentioned looking at kbuntu. She can probably handle some rough edges on her own, but I have no interest in long term support. So probably mint 🤣

[–] historicaldocuments@lemmy.world 3 points 22 hours ago

Whichever one you wind up with, Dolphin as a file manager blows the monstrosity that windows has out of the water. For someone who's eeked out some power/efficiency out of windows usage it should be very pleasant finding out the standard software available for Linux these can almost always make you more efficient with less effort.

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I use kubuntu. It's a good choice for people who don't have experience but are able and willing to search for answers.

KDE defaults are solid and utilizes a lot of Windows muscle memory, and being based on Ubuntu means that it's really easy to search for answers on virtually any question you might have. Plus widespread package support

[–] sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago

I was going to recommend a kubuntu lts, maybe help install flatpak support