Which #linux distro would you currently recommend for someone switching from Windows?
An app store would be nice, so no CLI is needed for updates.
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Ubuntu. Definetly.
Pop OS
Pop OS is to niche for somebody coming from windows.
*too
What other OS would you recommend then? And what would that OS offer that Pop doesn't?
Ubuntu is the go to noob distro. But Mint, based on Ubuntu, comes with a more Windows like UX.
You should definitely go with Fedora. They have their own appstore with Flathub integration and beautiful wallpapers. 🤩
And lots of hardware and GPUs are supported out of the box, which was a mess for me on Ubuntu and other distros.
ZorinOS!
Kubuntu - an Ubuntu with KDE Plasma instead of Gnome.
It is similar to Windows but much more sophisticated UI. Brilliant.
And if you want to run Windows programs by any reason, use Vine (it is not belongs to Ubuntu, it runs on nearly every Linux).
KDE is nice, and wine too :)
Btw: KDE has own app store, called Discover
I know it from Steam Deck but personally switched to cli because it doesn't work half the time
I like cli too, cus that's always work. And you can debug if any sw can't install. But never use the "dd -rf" command 😱
😂 I once accidentally rm -rf an external hard drive. Learned my lesson there
Ahh 😁 But dd is the worst. Irreversible. Some people call it as "disk destroyer" 😂
I wouldn't know how to reverse rm so I it's equally destructive to me 😅
I used dd once to clone a disk, like a decade ago 😱
So there was two lessons. :-)
As I know there is a utility to reverse the rm, but I'm not sure. Theoretically it's possible because the rm does not remove the physical data only the directory entries (like in Windows which uses FAT or NTFS filesystem).
I have had similar lesson once, but with a RAID NAS drive. I had to give the disks to a professional company to restore data (it was the Kürt, a world famous data restoring company - fortunately it is Hungarian and I know them personally).
So IMHO the Debian/Ubuntu based Kubuntu is the right choice 🙂