unix like operating system lovers

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This is a community that is only for nerds jk. everyone who doesn't scare when seeing UNIX terminal welcome! rules:

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Every other forum has rules about these posts because there's such a glut of them, and yes, I could go read a stickied thread elsewhere, but here I am not doing that.

How would someone with no computer skills get acquainted with the OS? What version would you recommend to the hopeless novice? Can I keep windows on my PC and run the new OS or a practice version of it in a partitioned space while I learn? Can someone with minimal skills/time/patience be happy with a unix-like OS?

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[–] tartarsauce@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

though I’m less of a fan for unimportant geeky reasons

are the reasons snap by any chance? i'd call that a fairly important reason i'm typing this from mint and not vanilla ubuntu

ps. sorry for necro

[–] lack@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Snap is one, yes,.

I think the default gnome desktop you get with Fedora is nicer looking and easier to use than Ubuntu (at least the last time I tried it), so it's better for new users.

I also just feel like Fedora does a better job of being near the advancing edge of new software (pipewire audio for example) while retaining stability, but that's more of a gut feel thing and less emperically-based.