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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldtolinuxmemes@lemmy.worldRTFM is Sage
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    27 days ago

    Sorry, I have a chronic medical condition that makes reading manuals physically painful, which prevents me from reading the manual until I encounter a problem that requires me to read it, at which point I will have likely discarded it. And if I haven’t, I will only read through the part that contains the information I need to know to solve the problem and then immediately forget it after.









  • I’ve started with Mint, switched to OpenSUSE Tumbleweed soon after because I wanted KDE. Swtiched to Fedora now.

    IMO, if you can use Mint, you can use Fedora or OpenSUSE. They’re just as easy.

    OpenSUSE comes with easy BTRFs snapshots and home folder encryption setup in the installer. But it is a slightly oddball distro and a few things sometimes work a little different which sometimes requires workarounds. It comes with decent gui tools as well for maintining your packages and repository (yast)

    Fedora is more mainstream, but doesn’t have the abovementioned features easily accessible in the install or out of the box. You can have nice gui for managing your packages and repositories but it has to be installed by you. I still made the btrfs and encryption happen by following a tutorial on youtube. I’m happy with it.

    IMO btrfs snapshots are essential to making the distro beginner friendly. It significantly simplifies fixing something that broke.