<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>Matt wrote</title><author_name>Matt (npub1l6…uj5rc)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1l6scds4yv7xmcsmhqnhdy9sggm520q09lvts2m5mkvecgr2mmmeqsuj5rc</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>I&#39;m starting to think Linus from LTT is either uncommitted to GNU/Linux or doing whatever he can to drum up controversy and revenue.&#xA;&#xA;The dude had the godfather in his shop, watched him install Fedora because he famously hates screwing with distros that don&#39;t just work, and still proceeds to use PopOS (with beta COSMIC) again.&#xA;&#xA;I&#39;ve been using this stuff for almost two decades, almost exclusively with the exception of niche school requirements. Just stick to the grandaddy distros if you&#39;re new. Install the shit you need. You don&#39;t need a &#34;gaming&#34; or this or that distro. Expand into the other stuff LATER if you want to.&#xA;&#xA;Fedora&#xA;Debian&#xA;Arch (if you really want to).&#xA;&#xA;Choose whichever desktop environment you prefer on those three (KDE, GNOME, TWM, etc).&#xA;&#xA;Pretty much everything else is based on these anyway, with others based on distros that are based on those distros. Things can get really goofy for a noob.&#xA;&#xA;There are very few niche exceptions (like  Qubes, based on Fedora) that a noob likely wants outside of the those three. There are plenty of good options (some not based on these distros), but that seems to be a big part of the problem for newcomers. Even I&#39;ve gotten to the point where I&#39;m tired of fucking with issues in the hundreds of other options.&#xA;&#xA;There&#39;s also nothing wrong with easing into the ecosystem. People don&#39;t have to try this stuff on the fly, on every machine, in the most asinine way possible (at a LAN event). LTT could have done this whole thing in a better way. But would that pay as well?</html></oembed>