Any distro I should use?

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    11 months ago

    The default UX used in Ubuntu may actually be confusing for newbies, as it’s quite different compared to Windows.

    It’s not that different, dude, and it’s not like they don’t give you a tutorial on first boot either.

    Perhaps a distro which uses KDE, XFCE, Cinnamon, MATE or LXQt by default.

    Gauge your audience dude. A Linux newbie will not know wtf anything you just named is. (For any other newbies reading, these are all ‘desktop environments’ - essentially collections of programs that make up a user interface)

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        11 months ago

        I do need to be fair though… The ones the other person mentioned, they are infact more ‘windows-like’ than Ubuntu’s default. It isn’t hard to learn Ubuntu’s setup by any means but it is something to learn.

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        Side dock, top panel, lack of a “start” menu are already three immediately visible differences, and you claim it’s not that different?

        The side dock is a taskbar except on the left hand side. Big whoop. Top panel is basically the system tray as seen on Windows, with all functionality fairly obvious just by looking at it, and there is infact a start button where you can type in the program name you’re looking for, just like most people do in Windows. Not exactly MacOS levels of relearning.

        Which is EXACTLY why I mentioned them, so that they can Google it.

        Or…you can explain what you are talking about. Like I did for you. Sending newbies off on wild Google chases is not helpful.