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Why is Linux so frustrating for some people?
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this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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Because people like to do stuff using a graphical UI but since that varies drastically from one distro to another all the instructions and support is reliant on doing stuff from the command line. That almost was solved by Ubuntu becoming ubiquitous but then they lost the plot.
The UI or DE (desktop environment) is actually interchangeable no matter what diatro you're on. But KDE is kind of moving ahead as the favorite it seems. The you have Gnome, which is what vanilla Ubuntu comes with... And that has spinoffs like cinnamon that come with Mint.
A few distros have really made the user experience pretty damn simple. I personally love EndeavourOS as it seems to be the best of all worlds for me personally. But for any of my non techy friends, I suggest or personally set them up with Mint more often than not Mint is a far better experience overall than Ubuntu in my opinion. But I greatly prefer the package manager (yay) in EndeavourOS.
Mint is awesome. The best beginner distro, but also just one of the best distros there are period.