Don’t think in terms of easy to use and unbreakable. You won’t get that because something as simple as losing icons on the desktop is the kinda thing that’ll confuse someone that’s bad with computers. Instead, think in terms of what’s going to be easy for you to fix when you inevitably have to play tech support.

Facts. XFCE should be familiar to anyone who has operated a computer in the last 25 years

This is a tangent, but I miss the days of things just working?

Why does my GPU need an entire software suite to function? Why do my keyboard and mouse? My monitor? Why does every piece of hardware need a buggy terrible gui with “features” nobody ever cared about until it was advertised to them? Up until the last 5 years I’ve never had a monitor not just work out of the box (outside of crt setups with adapters plugged into adapters)

The corporation sponsors the pro capitalist ideologue? I’m shocked.

I personally use Media Player Classic (MPC-HC). Just in case you wanted an alternative.

My entry level job requires that I use 3 separate apps. How do you get around that?

Do you know of an easy drop in way to convert a sysV system into an OpenRC one?

Yep! I don’t want anything to do with it. I don’t care if it’s an optional component, it’ll be optional until it isn’t.

Mx linux here! (sysvinit) Just migrated away from systemd due to the drama.

Whatever your preferred matrix client is. That’s the alternative. Element, Nheko, Fluffychat, all decent options.

Is it perfect? Hardly. Is it the best you’re going to get short of some cheap discord knockoff? Yes.

You could just do what the rest of us did and nod your head and not defend walmart?

It’s not like walmart is above it, and it certainly isn’t like walmart needs you defending them.

Age verification

Didn’t we already find out Linus is a scumbag to work for like, 2-3 years ago? Why do we still spread around his content? He’s a talentless hack that got lucky being one of the early tech personalities on youtube through NCIX

All perfectly reasonable responses to bad questions that waste people’s time tbf.

Debian. The answer is always Debian.

I think throwing up a slop chart like this is incredibly lazy for a company to post. They almost always get something wrong or invent stuff.

If you are having a conversation with someone about a topic and need something kinda quick, and sorta accurate to help explain something in a pinch, slopcharts aren’t useless. I’ve generated a couple based on niche manuals/handbooks. Probably better tools for the job, just the thing I happened to reach for.

I like the reliable mom van example. You can paint the rims all nice, put some stickers on it, hang up your fuzzy dice. But it’s still getting the kids home from soccer practice.

Gonna second the soatok hate. This guys just been signals #1 fanboy for the last several years and it really gets on my nerves.

You said no ubuntu so here’s some debian distros ;) MX linux, Sparkylinux, LMDE, Q4OS

No seriously though, all of those have their fans and in my opinion deserve a look. MX linux has one of the better xfce setups out of the box imo, sparky has lots of cool DE packages, LMDE is mint but better-nt, and Q4OS is one of the few distros that includes an out of the box trinity setup.

You won’t get what you’re asking for, because what you want is windows to not suck, not for Linux to have GUI. Me too tbf.

I started playing around with linux back in the Ubuntu 11.04 days. I was a tween with computers as a hobby and linux repeatedly humbled me and left me troubleshooting for hours. I had fun playing with it but I stayed with Windows on my main PC.

When I finally could not take it anymore in 2021, I started using fedora, which I grew to hate then moved to opensuse, which I grew to hate so I moved to Debian, and I’ve more or less stayed struggling in the Debian sphere since.

I’m a regular person, I don’t code. I can’t even hello world in python without help. I just need my laptop to be able to serve me the slop that I crave. If you’re that person too, you’re just gonna have to suck it up and learn how linux works. Suffer through it. You’ve been using windows probably since you were eating boogers, don’t expect to just pickup linux over night. I moved to linux for political reasons, and I suspect you’re doing so for similar reasons. It doesn’t get easier, you just get better at using Linux.

If you want my suggestion, pick something based on an LTS distro. I like Debian, but I’m sure there is good stuff based on RHEL, SUSE, whatever. People will sit here and tell you how “out of date” Debian is. You’re coming from windows, you probably regularly use software that nobody has maintained since 2009, you don’t care if bonzibuddy.exe got an AI update, you just want to turn computer on, watch youtube, play vidya game. Don’t let user johnthunderfuck69 in r/linux tell you his arch install has never broken in 20 years of using it. He is built different and you are not johnthunderfuck69.

I’ve had good luck with some of the gui tools included in MX Linux, SparkyLinux, and LMDE(mint debian edition). If you look hard enough between those 3 you’ll probably find a big red button that you can click to order pizza to your house.

Choose Cinnamon, XFCE, or KDE as a desktop environment.