Which distro is for the absolute beginner

I mean for those for 0% Linux knowledge and considerable resemblance to Windows. I want to make the switch, but I'm worried about how much I will have unlearn, or programs I take for granted from Windows that can't be used/perform poorly in Wine.

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Any, as long as you install the Cinnamon desktop environment
Mint comes with it, but it's basically just Ubuntu with that

Linux Mint

Mate if you are too stupid to figure out google you're going to have a bad time using GNU/Linux.
Just stay with windows and save yourself the frustration

At first I thought you were recommending Ubuntu Mate

Kubuntu. Should be easy enough for the brainlet.

Arch Linux with i3 wm.

Another beginner. So far my choices seem to be limited to either Ubuntu or Mint. I'm not sure at all which one.

I'm more inclined to Ubuntu desu, although with Lenovo laptop, I'm not sure with that shit about 17.10 bricking BIOS.

Mate Ubuntu (xfce is depreciated technology)
Antergos
Solus

Kubuntu

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debian, the linux for lesbians

>xfce is depreciated technology
>recommends fork of an actual deprecated desktop

Windows

When you're a beginner, there's no reason not to go hardcore with distrohopping.

Honestly, to learn Linux (that is, bash and GNU coreutils and a handful of other things), you're best off just booting up a LiveUSB whenever you get the urge. But if you're set on installing distros, just choose any -- and I mean, ANY -- "beginner" distro and use it until you're tired of it, and then learn to switch.

Ultimately, you learn Linux by using it. Getting bogged down by things like distros is silly.

ReactOS, you'll get deja vu every time you use it

I understand that well, and I already did a few dips with the LiveUSB with Ubuntu. I would however like to commit fully on my laptop, which is why I'm undecided. I will probably give a shot to Ubuntu/Kubuntu.

The newest Fedora Linux LXDE or XFCE spin, or alternatively Xubuntu or Lubuntu. Same OS, different package managers. You'll probably never notice a difference. They're simple enough that you won't be overwhelmed in the least, and just functional enough that you can do without a terminal but might want to use one anyway.

You're right.
Xfce apparently wasn't worth forking.

Forking to what? It's still alive unlike Gnome 2.

I agree.
None of that hinders my argument.
Gnome 2 is dead.
Mate lives on
Xfce gets replaced by lxqt and mate.
There's no need to be upset user.

If there were a distro based on Debian testing with LXQt as the desktop, it'd be perfect.

I don't understand what constitutes as a "beginner" Linux distro, do you people mean not having to compile your kernel?. To learn unix you can get any fucking distro with an installer and fuck around.

You mean you don't want to fight with hell dependencies?
That's just a dream.

TLDR
>get any fucking unix based distro with a UI installer

install gentoo

Rude

Fucking retard !

Try Ubuntu Mate

>0% linux knowledge
You'll hate it the first few months.

You'll come to love it once you're more familiar with it.

Definitely going to be in the minority here but I learned using Arch. It's frustrating when you first start because you won't really understand what you're doing, but if you read through the wiki (and I mean actually read, not just skim) then you'll have a deeper understanding by the time you're done.

You'll definitely want to keep a USB with the LiveArch installer on it nearby in case you break anything though, which you definitely will on the first try.

>You mean you don't want to fight with hell dependencies?
>That's just a dream.
Looking back, all the "beginner friendly" distros I've used had problems with packaging and whatnot. I figure I'd probably begin on Sabayon if I was starting today, it being based on the most flexible and (barring speed) the best packaging manager and all...

First and foremost, that depends on whether you just want "not windows or mac", or actually want to learn the ways of unix.

Just use 16.04 for now, upgrade when 18.04 comes out.

How the fuck do you stop screen tearing in XFCE? I've installed it on 3 different computers and they all have loads of tearing when scrolling in a browser.

lubuntu

If you want to learn Unix, buy a Mac. Don't waste your time with Linux distros that will destroy your data and hardware.

What's the point of using a distro that is just like Windows? if you REALLY want to learn the ways of Linux you should not be worried about that.

For example, Slackware recommends its book (Slackbook) to beginners. It explains many useful and important concepts of Linux systems and is, in my honest opinion, the least hold-handing distro there is (note that LFS isn't a distro), thus I always recommend Slackware.

Bait or brainlet?

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Linux From Scratch is a VERY good begginer distro.

Is Mint still worth taking a look at, or have its various security problems made it obsolete already?

Just switch and stop being a bitch. Put it in a virtual machine and see which of your programs work natively, which have alternatives, which you can get working with tinkering, and which you can't. You sound incapable of doing basic research though, so maybe just stay on Windows

Install Ubuntu, when safe switch to Debian.

>for 0% Linux knowledge
arch, use a guide but try to understand what you're doing
there's no better way to learn than to do, and there will be a lot of doing when using arch

I like Arch, user, but this guy seems totally incapable. He wants a distribution that holds his hand and is as close to Windows as possible. He should stay on Windows, honestly, but arch is not the distribution for him

I did too kek, too a few reads

For a production system, Fedora or Antergos/Manjaro. I would still suggest Gentoo, unironically, as you learn a lot, particularly dissecting the source to installation process. For a babby normie plebian, the former 3 distros may work, but I think there's merit to learning some of the computer architecture concepts behind Linux like inodes and MMA techniques which you can really only get attuned to while tearing apart at the kernel and the OS beneath.

there should be a sticky with
>THERE IS NO BEGINNER DISTRO TEHY'RE LITERALLY ALL THE SAME LINUX KERNEL + A BASE TOOL SET FUCK OFF
in big bold letters

Fuckers don't even read the sticky we do have