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How to start as a not very tech savy person (lemmy.ml)
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with the recent windows news, I wanna switch to Linux. I tried mint a few years ago and was annoyed and frustrated with multiple things, like having to input the password all the time and the general ammunt of constant trouble shooting and needing a tutorial for the most basic things.

I want a distro that:

  1. Is very user friendly, ideally not requiring a terminal
  2. Is hard to accidentally fuck up
  3. ideally doesn't require a password for every input

I basically just use my laptop to browse the web, draw in krita and use ms office apps (have been getting used to open office lately)

What do y'all suggest?

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[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 3 points 6 days ago

I recommend zorin os. Its an ubuntu lts (long term support) respin that is fine with proprietary software so will offer to install nvidia drivers and such if you want. This means its anything but bleeding edge and about as stable as your going to get. It tries to mimic the windows look and feel to be comfortable to windows users. Then it is also an out of the box distro which means it comes with software someone would exect a laptop to have and then some. so it will have libre office and a browser and software to play and edit audio, photos, video and software to burn a disk if you have a burner. Even an rdp client. It also has wine setup with play on linux so you can right click a windows exe and run or install it (may or may not work depending on the windows program). When you find programs online if it has a debian download you can use that or you can check a gui add software ting and search for it with the spyglass icon. Its about as easy as you will get. That being said I often recommend people install onto their last laptop if they have one that did not break when they replaced it. Linux runs so much better than windows that the old one will often run better than windows on teh new one.