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I’m open to critique, as to making this chart as helpful as possible.

The entire “New to Linux” section should probably just be “Mint” for anyone without an Nvidia graphics card.

For newbies, live USB test and installer experience are key, and Mint is still unmatched.

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prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve only used live USB to install EndeavourOS, and the experience was always super smooth

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sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Out of curiosity, is the live USB / install experience that different than kubuntu? I’ve never tried mint.

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- pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’ve used both, and been very pleased with both.
  
  Mint stood out, last time I installed it, because every decision was easy and factual and about me (what time zone, what keyboard).
  
  I essentially just pressed “next” a bunch of times.
  
  Kubuntu was nearly that good last time I tried it, as well.
  
  Between the two, I generally recommend Mint primarily because it keeps the messaging simple and consistent with the community.
  
  Secondarily, because Mint doesn’t have Snap.
  
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  - sem@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
    Ah, gotcha.
    
    I’m not technical enough to understand the functional difference between flatpak and snap, but I know that snaps are centrally controlled by Canonical and thus I assume not as enshittification resistant as flatpak.
    
    But from the end user perspective, they can be a lot simpler to use than ppas for random software. For me they’re kind of a guilty pleasure.
    
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