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Aren't they all Debian based? I used to recommend Ubuntu but not anymore β they break packaging of Python stuff all the time. Now I only advocate for Fedora.
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These are Debian-based, indeed, but it so happens that these are the distros most friendly to new users.
While Fedora is a good distro(for example), I would not recommend it to new users... Their videos will not play βfor some reasonβ and their Nvidia graphics driver does not work βfor some reasonβ - that user will not want to touch Linux ever again, because of that experience. Not everybody is technical.
Just another upcoming dev. Self tutoring development. Studying in class 11th. Yeah, I chose commerce to study with computer applications. Also, i prefer linux.
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Principal Software Engineer @ Ansible Core Engineering team at Red Hat
It's not like fedora can't play videos, I'm using fedora workstation from fedora 29 as a daily driver on my laptop, I've never ran into any problem related to media playback whether it's a video or audio file.
I'm a Fedora user and as awesome as it is I wouldn't recommend it for new users. Not sure how many new users use Python but I'd bet that the pluses of using these distros far outweigh the negatives - like python problems.
Aren't they all Debian based? I used to recommend Ubuntu but not anymore β they break packaging of Python stuff all the time. Now I only advocate for Fedora.
Yes they are but these destros maintain their own repositories and uses ubuntu's repositories negligibly.
These are Debian-based, indeed, but it so happens that these are the distros most friendly to new users.
While Fedora is a good distro(for example), I would not recommend it to new users... Their videos will not play βfor some reasonβ and their Nvidia graphics driver does not work βfor some reasonβ - that user will not want to touch Linux ever again, because of that experience. Not everybody is technical.
Explained better than I could, thankyou
Well, it looks like they do so at a cost of making other users' experience bad. For example: gist.github.com/tiran/2dec9e03c6f9....
Besides, the reason Nvidia drivers don't work is usually Nvidia.
It's not like fedora can't play videos, I'm using fedora workstation from fedora 29 as a daily driver on my laptop, I've never ran into any problem related to media playback whether it's a video or audio file.
I'm a Fedora user and as awesome as it is I wouldn't recommend it for new users. Not sure how many new users use Python but I'd bet that the pluses of using these distros far outweigh the negatives - like python problems.
Bonus one Manjaro is Arch based;)