Debunking the Myth of the “Best” Linux for Beginners: 6 Types You Should Know
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When people ask for the “best” Linux for beginners, they’re often met with endless suggestions and opinions. But is there really a single “best” choice for everyone? In this video, I break down the myth that one Linux distribution is perfect for every new user and instead explore the six major…
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Long story short (kinda) was running Windows XP on one of those old Dell Optiplexes, the putty colored ones from back in the days.
Got a BSOD…and could NOT recover from it. Vowed that day?..to NEVER use Windows again….ALMOST fell into the hold full pf APPLES?…but by some strange stroke of lkuck I THOUGHT I clicked on the Apple site…and instead I clicked on some site called "Wired" magazine and it went into detail about this thing called Linux. Needless to say I devoted approx 2 and half months of reading up on it?..and then forgot about it as life happened..then I revisited the issue in 2003…and made the leap…to "Fedora Core Linux" and I've never looked back…AND I've been using that and other versions of Linux on my personal PC's since then and I'm NEVER goin' back!…ever! So now I'm years into using Linux, my Mom, my son, my siblings their spouses their kids…my aunt and cousins…I've literally created a VILLAGE of Linux users..and none of THEM are going back either.
Sure there are different distros for different people…not everyone in the fam opted for Fedora…there's some Ubuntu fans…some Linux Mint fans…some ElementaryOS fans…and one or two Debian fans as well.
Sorry for the long story…just thought I'd share!
Awesome video Sir…keep 'em coming!!!
I'm just starting a new AMD build to run Linux. I plan to use Ubuntu LTS 24.04.1. I am not a new Linux user, but I am semi-retired and it has been a number of years since I used Linux. I was a self-taught sysadmin on a set of six rack-mounted HP Linux workstations running RHEL back in the late 2000s. Our group used them for engineering calculations. I'm starting a fairly long-term project and I don't want to change horses in mid-stream so I wanted to use an LTS version.
Good video.
Im not sure how to adress this. I was new to Linux 1 year ago. Had mostly every major distro break on me (Fedora, Nobara, Debian, ubuntu, Arch, garuda etc), until I was introduced to CachyOs. Been problem free ever since. Took 7 min to install, including the downnload. Introduced to a live ISO. Nothing to do after install it. I think maby Arch its self is a problem. But CachyOs, has devs that knows how to patch and code. So its like Arch on steroids. Its faster then any distro out there, you have anything that is the latest, even optimized packages for every system out there. This is not a noob comment ever, due I benchamark stuff. Im also licenced on paper for both microsoft and apple, so its not some bold claim. Lets say there is a regression. Few hours later, you do a -syu, and the system is stable again. Having a proper maintainer for an Arch based system, is better then sit on some old books in the library. I like to be on the internet. So far I have not been having any issues on CachyOs, even its an arch based system. Think that says more about the devs for the distero. It took me around 5 months to benchmark the systems. Then write down the problems around new systems. But i can guaranty there is not a more easy distro to get into. Install, then use. Then the devs fix the issues for you. If that is not easy.. then god knows what is easy. I find most problems are around desktop. Then im talking about KDE. Is the grass greener if you install Mate, xfce cinnemon etc.. Hell no.. Most bugs are in the desktop. But I can promis you one thing, even if you see minor bugs, every now and then. there is no system right now, better then cachyos with kde. I put up 6 system side by side last week. You think.. they would be better.. no. Not at all.
3 best beginner friendly distros are, mint, popos
sabayon's discontinued btw.
calculatelinux or redcorelinux are your best bet for a preconfigured gentoo out of the box.
there's also exGent, or Decibel Linux
I have been using this OS for about 13 years now, despite that I still find these types of videos intriguing. I think you did a very good job at laying out the differences in the distros in a way that new users should be able to understand.
Btw, you did pronounce SUSE correctly! Maybe with a bit of an accent, but it sounds relatively correct to my ears. So many people assume the E is silent, when SUSE officially wants you to pronounce it like you have. Also, as an openSUSE Tumbleweed user, I like it because it's a rolling release that happens to be very stable compared to others like Arch or Gentoo. This disadvantage is that it's usually a little slower to get updates as packages can sometimes be held back for a few weeks to a few days until everything passes OpenQA testing. Zypper (and YaST) also integrates with BTRFS and makes a snapshot everytime you update, meaning that if something does break after an update you can easily roll it back.
Everything talked in this video
Is another topic for another video
Garuda also comes with BTRFS out of the box, it makes snapshots eveytime before you update or install anything and it also includes the ability to restore snapshots from Grub.
I'm a beginner using Linux Mint now. I would say its perfect for my use-case of just using Browsing the Internet, Office and Email. No more paying for windows 11 spyware for me. Microsoft even want your phone number now and your personal information. They are becoming like google which i refuse to give them my phone number.
I still consider myself to be inexperienced with linux, I've used it off and on for over a decade but I've only used it as my main OS for about a year partially because the coding experience is so much better, I use popOS on my laptop, and I multi-boot my main system with Arch, Manjaro Plasma and the shameful OS that starts with W because I play a game that requires spyware to make sure you aren't cheating.
The main reason I switched to arch is because I really like the arch wiki and I tend to build a lot of stuff from source anyway it's a bit of a niche spot to be in because I find it easier to understand things delivered in a technical way so to me arch is simpler because it explains everything in detail and helps me understand how things work a bit, I also had to learn how an engine and transmission worked before I could comfortably drive a car I'm weird.
If I was recommending to someone else who is a bit more normal than me popOS is what I would point to, but it's very subjective and I don't think the word best can be applied to any of them you could really use any of the major distros and enjoy their strengths and work around their weaknesses and it'll be fine in my somewhat limited experience and having to work around things and deal with niche issues is not specific to linux I have had to do that a lot in every os.
tldr: I agree good video and I subscribed.
ps: I made it past 10 minutes before I started writing a comment, I assume it was intentional having arch start at the 10 minute mark lol
I tried typing out a long explanatory comment but YouTube is censoring EVERYTHING. So here's the highlights. Ubuntu isn't based on Debian Stable. RHEL is not a good choice anymore unless you're a huge business. MX Linux is objectively the best distro for beginners even if it doesn't fit every occasion. I'm gonna see if I can expand in the comments below this one.
Ubuntu (and by extension, any other distro based on it like Linux Mint) is not actually based on Debian. Or at least, it's not based on Debian Stable. Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing (Ubuntu's standard release) and Debian Unstable (Ubuntu's LTS release). This is an INCREDIBLY important distinction for beginners as Ubuntu and other distros based on it are claimed to have such a stable base, but they do not. At all. Not to say that you can't successfully run Ubuntu or a distro based on it, but your chances of running into bugs or breaking changes are much higher on Ubuntu and other distros based on it. Linux Mint does do a better job (I think) of filtering out Ubuntu's unstable nonsense, but regardless, why even compromise at all?
Furthermore, while it's very true that there is no one-size-fits-all distribution, at least for most beginners, I think that there OBJECTIVELY is indeed a best beginner distro, and that is MX Linux. Actually based on Debian Stable. Tons of GUI system management tools. Advanced Hardware Support kernel. Native support for Flatpaks out of the box. World-class dev team that listens to their members on the forums and actually gives boots-on-the-ground support. Plus a bunch of other things. I could go on. Basically, MX Linux is Debian Stable: Enhanced Edition.
Ubuntu (and by extension, any other distro based on it like Linux Mint) is not actually based on Debian. Or at least, it's not based on Debian Stable. Ubuntu is based on Debian Testing (Ubuntu's standard release) and Debian Unstable (Ubuntu's LTS release). This is an INCREDIBLY important distinction for beginners as Ubuntu and other distros based on it are claimed to have such a stable base, but they do not. At all. Not to say that you can't successfully run Ubuntu or a distro based on it, but your chances of running into bugs or breaking changes are much higher on Ubuntu and other distros based on it. Linux Mint does do a better job (I think) of filtering out Ubuntu's unstable nonsense, but regardless, why even compromise at all?
Furthermore, while it's very true that there is no one-size-fits-all distribution, at least for most beginners, I think that there OBJECTIVELY is indeed a best beginner distro, and that is MX Linux. Actually based on Debian Stable. Tons of GUI system management tools. Advanced Hardware Support kernel. Native support for Flatpaks out of the box. World-class dev team that listens to their members on the forums and actually gives boots-on-the-ground support. Plus a bunch of other things. I could go on. Basically, MX Linux is Debian Stable: Enhanced Edition.
Also, a small note. While it is true that businesses aren't going to care about the following and just want the support contract, period, RHEL has been going downhill with Red Hat making some pretty bad decisions for the OS on top of the fact that RHEL is just plain old getting slightly more unstable every year. I once used their LEAP tool to migrate servers. Failed with a weird error that I couldn't find anywhere. Had to use another distro entirely instead.
First Distribution I started with was Mint! Great for beginners
Heheh, I will use that joke sir. Thank you.
I’m thinking of trying Mint, hoping for the best
There is a best distro for beginners, it's linux Mint.
Mint is stable, easy to use with a windows like layout, and has a large community with a lot of support.
I use Pop!_OS too. Really enjoy it. Was my first distro for real. Had a PC with Ubuntu on it a loooong time ago as a kid. Went cold turkey to Pop! a few months ago and have no interest in M$ anymore. Even saved some PC's from being "recycled" by my employer. Now running them as a home server. Love the channel.
I use CachyOS and OpenSUSE Tumbleweed so that bit about Arch opinions was hilarious. I will install Arch on my build but I'm not a beginner. I just like hearing opinions so I can direct people as needed.
my first linux was gentoo. a friend who was well versed in this distro helped me set it up as a DIY 2 NIC router/firewall system that was pentium 3 based. it was a pain to troubeshoot but when it worked it was wicked good for the hardware it was on.
these days my Pis are raspbian, my home server and dual boot PC are ubuntu.
Aa someone who likes Linux with the Windows layout, Linux Mint has been great for me! Super simple and stable.