Jesus. Another one of these? Every freaking day. (Promise it’s different)

I personally like mint and pop!os for new users, but for this user I want to try something windows like with more sex appeal. I don’t want to have to touch this computer again. Proprietary software is not an issue/consideration. User is techier than most. What has your experience been with kbuntu? Pros/cons? Other suggestions?

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    11 hours ago

    This may actually hinders new users because you can’t just change stuff on the system.

    And no, not everything always work out of the box. Fedora & OpenSUSE codecs, I’m looking at you.

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      4 hours ago

      I think you overestimate the average persons need to configure their computers. Most people just use a web browser, email, and maybe some light gaming. No one new to Linux is going to be really upset that they can’t do complex system operations on the command line.

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        3 hours ago

        No, but they’d be upset if they cannot play their usual media files. H265 is known to be absent by default on a lot of these distros.

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          I’ve never had a problem with any media playback. I don’t think this is an issue on Bazzite, the immutable distro I’ve been using for over a year.