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[–] ikidd 6 points 5 months ago (7 children)

Oh, you need media codecs out of the box to watch pretty much anything in your browser?

That takes Fedora out.

OpenSUSE has probably the most confusing install interface for a noob you'll ever find. Which DE do I choose? What other software do I put in? How do I partition? Oh, I click a button here to make a user, or can I ignore it completely?

So much for OpenSUSE.

And don't get me started on Arch. You'd be way better off pushing a new user to Manjaro but everyone's got their panties in a twist about its devs.

Whatcha got now, big guy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is where Universal Blue and Nobara come in. They are made to be plug and play versions of fedora inc. media codecs, Nvidia, steam, and so on.

[–] ikidd 2 points 5 months ago

FWIW, +1 for Nobara. I think it's an excellent turnkey Fedora for most purposes. But it's a little chancy on being dependent on a single maintainer.

But Fedora itself isn't noob friendly when you have to figure out how to add the non-free repos and install all the rest of the shit. Nobara takes care of that well.

[–] ABeeinSpace 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Are media codecs hard to install on Fedora? I haven’t daily driven Fedora in a while, but last I remember it was one of the top-level categories in GNOME Software. Click it then install all the things. Although I suppose if the user didn’t know what a media codec is that wouldn’t help them very much

[–] ikidd 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not anymore. They completely divested that off to having to get RPM Fusion repos set up and then manually install the codecs.

As another user said, Nobara does all this, and I use Nobara myself. But Fedora itself has made all that harder.

[–] ABeeinSpace 1 points 5 months ago

Oh that’s a shame. Yeah, then I’m right with you, that’s not beginner friendly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Endeavouros ofcourse! All the goodness of arch, but with the ease of installation of any other desktop based distro!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Agreed, this is the distro that worked best for my needs (modern security, without wanting to die from maintenance of that security)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How do I partition?

This can be said about any OS installer. Even Windows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I am sure Win7 installer has it and if, I didn't get early dementia, Win10 installer has too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Ubuntu is fine. Pop!_OS if you're set on Flatpaks instead of Snaps.

[–] wesifa 1 points 5 months ago

Honestly, Ubuntu and its variants are probably the best distros. It's not great, it has its drawbacks, but to get people started, perfectly fine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Oh no! What's a desktop environment!? NEXT!