I'd like to get away from "arch bad for new users" - eviltoast

When I say arch I mean the arch distro and all of its offspring.

Endeavouros

Arch-gui

Manjaro

Artix --maybe not though

My first enjoyable distro was manjaro, the manjaro element less so but using arch clicked for me. But even so if my first experience was using arch and archinstall then yes its not the easiest but its also not that difficult, arch is treated like a boss battle in darksouls.

So when a pre configured GUI arch is recommend I would like to see less scar mongering.

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      9 months ago

      Which distros exactly, and for which applications?

      For the Debian based distros that I mentioned before (Pop, Zorin, Elementary), I’ve never heard of any normal user having to fire up the terminal. And by “normal” as in someone who doesn’t have any special software needs and just uses Facebook, email etc, maybe ocassionally prints and scans stuff or plays games from Steam. And you can ask my elderly mother - she’s been using Xububtu and Zorin for almost a decade now and never had to touch the terminal.

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        9 months ago

        Motioneye was one application and yea its not for a regular users but the only time ive imported pgp keys on arch was for mullvad VPN, and on a few more niche applications. Maybe I am just incredible lucky.