• eldain@feddit.nl
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    1 year ago

    Choose your desktop, that’s the thing you’ll work with the most and could get in your way the most. Any ‘living’ distribution with an installer that fits your needs and delivers your chosen desktop out of the box will do. You’ll learn later if the distribution and community suit you, and if you back up your user directory you can easily migrate distributions without changing the look of your system.

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      I think these are good points - desktop environment will be the most immediately impactful choice; then once you’re settled a little into the Linux way you might start making choices about the package manager, eco-system and community philosophy.

      But as you said, take your home directory with you and switching or exploring a little isn’t a pain at all.

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        You’ll have such a bad start choosing Mint when you don’t like Cinnamon, this approach prevents that. They do a lot of things right for beginners/low maintainers but only if you can live with their desktop.