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I'd like to get away from "arch bad for new users"
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this post was submitted on 11 Feb 2024
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I agree with the OP. But swap the term "newbie" for "casual user" or "non IT user", and more people would agree. Even the nerdiest IT Pro was a newbie whenever they use a distro for the first time. Avoid the term "normie" too, as people have different ideas of what normal is. There are more non IT, power users who have a deep knowledge of their applications, than all Linux users put together.
So this discussion is all around a sloppy choice of terminology.
I agree that the descriptors have to change. It's insulting to linux beginners when you assume they're illiterate non-it users that can't read the paragraph explaining the install options.
But, for a non IT person, installing Linux, using the typical GUI tools is not specially hard to do. Write an ISO to a USB stick. Boot the PC. Answer the installer questions like language etc. And if something doesn't work, try a different distro. The problems come when people suggest users use unfamiliar UIs, such as the command line or fiddling with config files, where, if you don't know the exact magic words, it fails to work.
While a linux beginner who's been developing apps in proprietary microsoft systems for 20 years might be looking for an OS that's easy to manage from CLI.
Yes. Then the newb is typically happy to learn the Arch ways. Showing that "arch bad for new users" is a bad choice of words.