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this post was submitted on 23 Aug 2024
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IDK if thats true in 2024. I Debian 12 isn't much harder to setup than mint or Ubuntu, and the version of gnome it ships with is perfectly fine. I'm not a winner anymore, so maybe there's something I glossed over.
Oh wait, I just remembered the thing I glossed over. Needing to install sudo would definitely throw a beginner for a loop
Not only that, installing flatpak is also a thing. PPAs also work differently on debian, compared to ubuntu... And if the beginner has too new of a hardware setup or wants to game at all, Debian is gonna throw them for a loop.
Oh right, sometimes I forget people have computers other than old thinkpads