At 12 I was too scared of downloading most programs for fear of viruses, if I had been asked to partition a drive I would have cried.

It’s there, it’s just not necessary for launching an application. It’s the same as on Android.

I started dual booting Ubuntu and Windows when I was 19 or so and when I’d go back to my Windows partition to do something I realized I had either forgotten or never learned a lot of how to navigate it. I opened it and went “Where is my terminal?” and then remembered cmd and started using it to look for a directory before remembering that’s never how I’d done things on Windows. It was an odd experience.

A big reason I use Lemmy is because I like all the FOSS discussion lmao.

There’s a desktop iso available for Bazzite with either Gnome or KDE plasma and both work normally.

Got the Kidpix design philosophy

I somehow could not find the Mint install so I went with Ubuntu Mate. It was fine.

I’m pretty sure antiX is designed for this specific use, but I have not run it personally. It’s based in Debian stable (which right now is Bookworm and will be Trixie pretty soon). I’m very fond of Debian. It’s not fancy, but it gets the job done.

Ubuntu Mate was my first distro and it helped me learn a lot, but I don’t really see a point in using Ubuntu over Debian. I never found it easier and you learn apt either way.

For me personally I install kitty terminal and integrate it with fish asap. Then I waste a bunch of time customizing it to my liking. My preferred text editor is Kate regardless of what DE I’m using and I usually get bleachbit for basic cleanup.

Yeah, this was a weird way for them to phrase this. You can use Meta stuff on Linux and Fediverse stuff on Windows.