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I just found out my fiancee wants to switch to linux, lets start a distro war, what should be her first? + other questions (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 month ago by StarvingMartist@sh.itjust.works to c/linux@lemmy.ml

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So i was surprised today when my fiancee told me she was thinking about switching over to linux. Surprised because she is absolutely not technically minded, but also because she was weary about having Microsoft AI slop forced on her PC every update. ( i'm so proud!)

Now i've used a little linux but i've always been a holdout. Won't stop me from moving someone else over but i have too much going on in my setup to deal with that right now. So i'm not super versed but i was able to give her the basic rundown of what distros are, concerns when switching, what may and may not be available, shes still on board so we're doing this! Knowing her she would like to not have to transition too much, whats something fairly hands off and easy to learn. I've heard some good things about mint from hanging around you nerds the past few years but also some not so good things, any suggestions?

next concern is what kind of transfer process is this going to be? i have some spare HDD's so we can try and get everything ported over but i'm so busy with school right now i can't quite allocate the time to really deep dive this.

Any help is appreciated, cheers!

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[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Debian + KDE

[–] RiemannZetaFunction@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why did it take so much scrolling to get to the right answer

[–] Holytimes@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 month ago

The right answer is,

Debian if they just use web browsers and basic office apps.

Fedora if they use do the same but also use recent hardware that needs a newer kernel

Bazzite if they are a casual gamer and you want to make sure her sims still work easily

Cachy if she's a nerd and plays a lot of higher end games.

All with kde of course

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If you're using that currently, do you notice that on a fresh reboot, if you sit at the desktop and just wiggle the mouse for a while, or keep creating selection boxes with your mouse, KDE will freeze for a random amount of time?