• Awesome Tiles because I find it simpler than other tiling managers
• Caffeine to keep my laptop awake when I need it
• Clipboard Indicator for easy clipboard history access

For anything else I’m fine with Gnome’s basic workflow

We reached the peak of technology, from now on it’s all gonna be downwards

Debian-head here, daily driving it for the last 5 years. I distrohopped a lot before but Debian made me stay, mainly because of its stability and the fact that it’s community driven.
It’s getting harder everyday making your needs fit your ethics, but this is one of the few cases and it makes me feel good with my choices.

Yeah flatpak won’t work on my Nokia 3310 either, what a shit software…

Edit: if you upvoted this comment, your kneecaps pop when you pick up things from the ground

I’d say Gnome, since I’m so used to it that I feel it doesn’t get in the way of the things I’m doing.
Because that would be my aim: something that doesn’t interfere with the work I am doing.

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Since less techy people tend to use more the mouse/touchpad anyways, I would pick a hard-to-mess-with desktop environment like Cinnamon or Gnome. With KDE, XFCE and such you can screw panels really easily if you don’t know what you’re doing.
Slap Debian under it and there you go

Welcome to the team.
I hope you brought your bouncing shoes because as soon as you’ll get comfortable, you’ll start hopping a lot

I read your comment in my head with the voice of Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and made me laugh

I don’t see it that way but I’m not gonna argue, since I have no horse in this race. I’m not an ubuntu hater, I actually think it’s both a good gateway to the FOSS world and a good permanent solutions for those who don’t mind a corporate approach to linux. I just find it funny to take random punches at it once in a while…

Just by how the documentation is written, you should understand who’s its target audience: it’s clearly for new users that want to understand their philosophy.
Is it oversimplified? Yes.
Does this mean it’s misinformation? If I can oversimplify, then no it’s not.

Well Ubuntu os not that bad if you just stick to the ecosystem. I mean… Not everyone… Pffft… Wants to… HmmHMpf… Babysit… Ahahahah I can’t…

Just install Mint

I distro-hopped so many times I got so sick of change that I’ve stuck with Debian for 4 years, the longest ever. It’s a peaceful life.

This post smells like burnt toast

Are you using LibreOffice from the Fedora flatpak repositories? Because they crash on me all the time too

Windows is a pain in the ass to set up

- the guy with a tiling window manager

Because you don’t have to know what to do already if you start with Ubuntu. You have to know your way around the Linux world more if you use Debian

I used Bodhi Linux for a long time and I still remember how cool was the Enlightment fork they used: Moksha

Now we need an Arch tampon for the bleeding edge

In this context, I didn’t read it as “Mah-Tay”