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Ask Slashdot: What's The Easiest Linux Distro For A Newbie?

Posted by EditorDavid on from the OS-advice dept.

joseph Kramer -- a long-time user of both Windows and MacOS -- comes to Slashdot with the ultimate question: I've been lurking here for years and seen many recommendations for a Linux flavor that works. What I'm really looking for is Linux that works without constant under-the-hood tweaking (ala early Windows flavors, 3.1, 95/98). Does such an OS exist? For the record, I am not an IT tech. I just need something to work with the mechanical equipment it controls. Any recommendations?
When it comes to Windows and MacOs, he describes himself as "fed up with their shenanigans." So leave your best answers in the comments. What's the best way for a newbie to get started with Linux?

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  1. Slackware by phantomfive · · Score: 4, Funny

    and if you want the best user experience, install it from floppies.

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    1. Re:Slackware by OzPeter · · Score: 3, Funny

      and if you want the best user experience, install it from floppies.

      Been there, done that. Now get off my lawn, user number 622387. LOL.

      Careful, you don't want to invoke the small number Gods on here. It can get ugly. I know, as I have hidden behind my keyboard and watched as 4 digit and under users have emerged from the depths and cast judgement on us lesser souls.

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  2. Gentoo by fredgiblet · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obviously.

  3. Re:ChromeOS by grep+-v+'.*'+* · · Score: 5, Funny

    RMS is also an opinionated boomer hippie asshole.

    RMS: "Flattery will get you nowhere."

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  4. Re:You need the "golden unicorn" distro by KozmoStevnNaut · · Score: 4, Funny

    The best possibility is to find a version of Linux that does what you want it to, install it, then keep it far away from any and all internet connections. That is the only hope you have that it won't try to update itself, install new versions or discover that external stuff it expected to find has mysteriously been moved or deleted by the notional owner.

    He was asking about Linux, not Windows 10.

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