You have to realize just how alien that sounds to anyone unfamiliar with the Linux ecosystem.
I was vaguely familiar with different distros, and how it's basically the Lego of operating systems, from tinkering around with it twenty years ago.
It was funny asking for recommendations and getting everything from Mint to Arch.
For someone else who had absolutely no idea, and who'd only ever used Windows, it would absolutely be a project.
It showed up on my feed. I see similar advice posts regularly "Just ditch windows and..."
Aside from my work tools not working on Linux natively, there are usually a few other steps involved in making the transition. Most people don't want to fuck around with that sort of thing.
I played around with Ubuntu back in the early 00s, before reverting back to Windows.
I looked into what was the easiest current distro to install in order to revive an old laptop. The consensus seemed to be Mint. It works fine and the old hardware was all recognized and so on. I'm still primarily a Windows user, even with all the the BS that goes along with it.
@kde@floss.social @kde@lemmy.kde.social
I use DDG on Edge, and haven't seen this.
I've got Mint on an old laptop. It seemed to require the least amount of fuckery to get working. No idea what Plasma is.
I just want an OS and browser, not a project.
