HOW DARE IT BE MILDLY ACCURATE!

kde is very pretty and fun but there aren’t really beginner focused kde distros, I myself started on kde neon but that’s not really too polished and kubuntu is a bit meh

i had doubts about mint but i tried it out and it REALLY handholds you well imo

one thing kde does really well though is getting people interested in linux, because the customisation options are so exposed and user friendly

Ubuntu works just fine. But Canonical has an iffy track record.

Some years ago they bundled an Amazon app with the plain install. For a while it also integrated with the system search by default. So if you searched for a file on your machine, then your search query would also be sent directly to Amazon. You could opt-out but it was enabled by default. Later it was changed to be an opt-in, and I believe it’s entirely removed today.

Besides that they often push technologies that isn’t really fostering the community. When Wayland was slowly gaining traction, Canonical suddenly announced and aggressively pushed Mir, instead of collaborating on Wayland, the preferred making their own alternative.

These days they are pushing their Snaps pretty hard. So back in the day if you apt-get install firefoxyou would get a regular native Firefox install. Today if you do the same it will instead install a Snap of Firefox. Snaps are also a bit funny… Flatpak was gaining traction, and suddenly Canonical decides to build their own alternative instead of contributing to Flatpak.

So all in all, Canonical is making some dodgy business partnerships. The add a good bit of bloat in their regular install, and they constantly build their own (inferior) alternatives to all sorts of stuff.

I’m all for having alternatives and choices, but in Canonical’s case, they generally don’t give you much choice, they just force you to use their alternative. This of course leads to fragmentation, which is unfortunate.

It’s bloated with Canonical BS, from their custom extensions (which break touch on Wayland) and Snaps obviously

I’ve been using its handheld version for over a month on my Legion go and it’s great.

But I installed it on my main PC wanting to go back to Arch and had to force a shutdown because my monitor is picky about being turned on after the PC and it fucked the OS. It needed to boot a live USB and introduce some command to fix it.

First time I see something like that, although I have to admit that I’ve been daily driving Linux for only ~3 years.

No, because they don’t deviate enough from arch to avoid issues with breakages on updates. Just recently on lemmy someone was wondering why all their vlc plugins were uninstalled. Easy fix for someone who knows how to use pacman, but that and similar incidents make cachyos not really a “just works” system.