For those new to Linux, keep in mind that it's not necessary to install a different version or distro to use a different gui (graphical user interface for the total newbies). It's easy to install a different DE or even a whole bunch of them, and choose which to run at the loggin screen. It is, however, a good idea to run the distro from a flashdrive to check if internet, wifi, bluetooth, and other hardware works OK in that particular distro.
Man what a nice surprise from RU-vid recommendations. Really good content that can help people wanting to migrate to Linux. Well, the first time I even saw Linux I think it was somewhere on the old Internet or it might have been on a random magazine, I don't remember quite well, and it was about a Linux Distro called Kurumin, but I never tried. The first distro I tried though, was Ubuntu during my college years and after that I tried Puppy Linux on a really old Laptop from the XP era and was surprised on how lightwheight it was. I also tried Linux Mint, but I was having a hard time playing games on it back then, 'cause it was before the Steam Deck and it wasn't easy to find info on how to run games on Linux. Right now I'm still using Windows, but I am considering installing either Kubuntu or Fedora with KDE on my Desktop and keep Windows on my laptop since that's what I use on my work.
A. When I install Linux for family and friends. I installed both The GNOME Desktop Environment and The KDE / Plasma Desktop Environment. B. I've found that some KDE / Plasma applications don't work well under The GNOME Desktop Environment. C. For maximum software compatibility I install both Desktop Environments. D. Does anyone else install both The GNOME Desktop Environment and The KDE / Plasma Desktop Environment on the same Linux installation? If YES. Please leave a reply to this list of comments explaining why you install both Desktop Environments on the same Linux installation.
Thank you for the video. It’s nice to see more people coming to Linux and more friendly and helpful videos like this one welcoming them. I got to say it was an adventure for me to find the right fit. I love Gnome but got to say it’s a bit heavy on my machines and not customisation friendly. KDE is great but will take some time to learn how to customise. XFCE is funny enough one of my favourite. It’s lighting fast on old devices and weak processors while on new devices it’s the definition of light speed! It’s also not overly complicated to set up. The only issue is lack of wayland support and looking dated. I think a distro that has a nice approach is Zorin OS. It’s Gnome but lighter and you can simulate windows, gnome, MacOS and other type of interfaces with the click of a button. I can’t wait to see what Cosmic will be like :)
EOS plus KDE 6.x with Wayland is working just fine for me. Steam works just fine for Windows games Wine would run most of Windows apps too Rolling releases are the way to go.
I hate mobile/mac/tablet guis. Yes i grew up with XP and Win7, the best option i can find nowadays is XFCE and KDE, but they don't look good/clean at the default options so ill be coping on WIn10 until it stop being updated, then ill probably migrate to Mint with XFCE..
If desktop, Mint-Cinnamon. if laptop, Mint - Mate (Mate is the only option to get battery life, not even xfce) if server, Ubuntu will do, just go with snaps/flatpacks that run in app container.
Mint or Ubuntu. They are the most stable, and easiest to transition to. Also don't recommend dual booting on first Linux use, not because it's not a good idea, but strange issues can happen with the boot loader, and if that becomes a problem, it will be a nightmare.
After a year of Linux, I finally settled on Fedora and Hyprland with Gnome (and five extensions) as an alternative on three PCs. My 87 year old mom has 32 bit Mint on her two 2005 Dells and she likes Mint OK. Debian is good. Tumbleweed is OK. I tried POP and Ubuntu Budgie during the year. Even Arco B. Fedora with Hyprland is the best experience for me.
For me, and for now at least. With this PC I recently got very cheap, has to be XFCE for me. Yes i have a older Workstation with upgraded but older too NVIDIA, can only use 470 driver version.. i5 6600 16 gigs up-gradable to 64 though which I will do sooner or later. GT 730 V-card, also this is the variant that can game since it has GDDR5 memory at 2 gigs and low profile. yep surprisingly they do exist... Was a surprise to me too when I got it about 2 years ago at a surprising price of 35$ lol Yes used but well maintained.. Why people think these suck escapes me totally LMAO and yet they spend more then I just did. lmao
GNOME can also work well with Wayland, right? In delusion, I hope I can switch among all distros at a glance on only one computer. My opinion as a non-tech user is appearance is minor. The appearance is usually customizable. I want a distro that can do all necessary things and of course fast and not weak. That's it. Probably the only issue for me is the keyboard input method for doube-byte characters because I need to type in Mandarin/Taiwanese/Japanese/Korean languages.
I've been distro hopping to almost all popular distro with different DEs. at the end of the day (literally) I'm back installing Linux mint. It's just a better version of ubuntu. And when I need app with specific purpose, the instruction's always for ubuntu that will become a hell of an issue in other distro for a newb to fix.
Xfce for me. MX Linux. Dumped Windows in 2017 and never used it again. Today's Windows is bloated spyware and add filled crap and with Recall it will be even worse.
Thank you, very good information. I have used Mint for over a year now and just recently changed from Cinnamon to Mate. I'd like to go to Debian, however you may have to create a video on how to do that. I believe I would have to re-partition in order to keep my applications and data untouched? Over the years I have had to reinstall windows so many times and then re-install all my applications and restore data from backups, I'm a bit scared to start again for Debian, however, I may play around with it on a live system first...
Thanks, I'm glad you liked it. Yes, trying it in a live cd can be a good starting point. Or you can try it too in a virtual machine like VirtualBox. Personally, I like to try things in a Virtual machine. For your future Debian installation, do you want to install Debian alongside Linux Mint ? Or you want to replace Linux Mint ?
Applications installed with one distro will almost never work on another one. Each distro has different things in the system that applications need to function, and those things usually don't work with the applications from another distro. You will need to install the applications again when installing a different distro or a different version of the same distro. If you don't have a separate /home partition and want to use the same drive, you will need to back up your data to some other device because a new install will destroy it. I suggest getting a small ssd and install the new distro on it. This way, you can work on one, and have the other one in case something goes wrong. It's a pain to have to install everything again, but there's really no choice. Once you decide on a distro you intend to keep using, make a list of the packages for the applications you normally install, and you can install them in a list in the terminal in one go or 2, 3 or more if you have a lot of them. This makes it a lot quicker. I suggest backing up your config files in your home directory, but using them in a different distro can cause glitches because the versions of applications may be different in the new system. You may need to redo your settings as well for the same reasons as with applications. I've caused myself some problems when using configs from a previous install. I always found setting up a new install to be a nightmare because no new install comes anywhere close to fitting my preferences. This resulted in hours of installing and re-configuring everything. I ended up putting together my own DE with Openbox and a bunch of utilities to make it complete. This was a nightmare to set up at first, but once done, copying my configs from another install works and takes much less time than other setups. Openbox configs haven't changed in some time, and copying configs works.
When you install a new Linux, you can use the same /home, but be sure to not check the "format this drive" option when you configure that home partition, it will not erase the content of this partition. Use the same filesystem as previously configured, too. But off course, it is necessary to make a backup before installing another OS, just in case. In my case I have 5 Linux distributions installed on my laptop, they used the same /home partition, but I put different username on each. I prefer to use a different home folder for each user. Because like you said, all distros can have different version of software, and I prefer to not use the same home folder. So what is the benefit of my setup to have the same /home partition ? It is easy to back up all my user file. On my main distro (Debian KDE), I set up a backup to back up all my /home partition. Also, if I need to move some file from a user to another user, it is fast because the file is in the same partition. Normally, the first created user have the same user ID on the main Linux distribution (id 1000), so I always configured the first user as my user, I can access easily my other user. I'm the only one to use my laptop. I have a shared folder for all my user too in that "home partition", I put all my pictures, video file, etc... on that folder. Furthermore, I have an encrypted partition for my sensitive file too. When I need to access that partition I click on it from my file manager, I enter the pass phrase, and then I can access my file on that partition. For me, configuring a new session when I install a new Linux is not so hard. I like the KDE default setup. The only things I have to do is configure firefox with my account to sync my bookmark, install and configure some apps, some tuning in kdenlive and that is, I'm ready to use my environment. I never take an application config file to restore the config, but I prefer to configure it from scratch to have a clean new setup. But of course it always takes some hours to have all things configured like we want after installing a new OS. Now I'm very happy with my Debian KDE system and I don't need to install new one. But sometimes I boot on Fedora KDE, Opensuse tumbleweed, KDE neon already installed just to test them again. The new version of the KDE environment or software. I have the same tools installed on them as I have on my Debian, so I can normally do the same things. Offcourse, it is not necessary to have all this distro installed... I was just curious, and sometimes I like to try one week on another distro than Debian. But when I really need to focus many weeks on a project, Debian KDE is the one I use. Very stable and few updates to apply.
How often is the average computer user forced to use the Windows terminal (which he had to learn beforehand), to get something done on Windows? Do the same with Linux, and I guarantee you success!
Having begun with DOS 5, then Windows 3, and up to Windows XP on my home computers, and up to Windows 10 at work, I find Linux more usable and reliable than Windows.
Wait for a polished up enough Android PC, cause Linux PC developers will never forfeit their beloved terminal to the extent a normal PC user will be satisfied with. The most dumbest problem even on Zorin forces you to use that damn terminal, like uninstalling a faulty app installation. You're like, "Not this horse shit again! Why can't these people finally get it, that the vast majority of users are normal, and don't suffer from their obsessive-compulsive disorder of constant typing?! How many more decades must pass what opportunities these shoelace-stumbling geniuses are losing by not fixing this simple problem?", pissed at yourself for believing in yet another user-friendly distro.
It's not the devs who are the problem, it's the lack of coders and others to write and implement these features. There are just too few people working on this stuff.
@@mewhenthemewhenstheme Yeah. Typical Linux fanboy "logic". Through Android, Google has over 70% of the mobile market, but it's nothing compared to the badass every snotty-nosed kid on roblox has you for, because of your proclaimed use of Linux (in reality, it's 2-4% of the PC OS market, but sure you use Linux).
I choose the Window Manager I want to use after I install. I console boot. Anyone looking for an experience like Windows in Linux will be disappointed.
Yes, windows manager is not a GUI to be like Microsoft Windows. As say in the video, to anyone looking for an experience like Windows, I recommend Linux Mint. It exists some distros trying to be exactly like Windows, I never tried them. For me, I would use Windows if I want Windows.
@@benlinux-en if anyone is looking for an experience like Windows they should just run Windows. Because Linux ain't Windows. Running Linux like it is Windows is a tragic loss too. That's the way to grief and heartache. If you run Linux then run Linux like it's Linux. You'll be far better off. The similarities are all superficial.
@@1pcfred Interesting how Richard Stallman, the founder of the GNU Project, pronounces it "guh-new." But no, please do tell us how you know more than the person who started GNU
