Communist

i have given linux to many many people at this point and neither of these things have been problems, when’s the last time you used kde?

the simplest way to think about is the distro is your app store

what versions of apps available and how many as well as when they’re updated are determined by distro

the desktop environment is the thing you interact with aside from the installation of software, the entire gui

Linux mint is a common recommendation but I think a bad one (for beginners anyway), I highly recommend bazzite with kde, I have 15 years of linux experience and am willing to do infinite troubleshooting if you add me on matrix (which is on my profile) I’ve onboarded many people and this is my experience with beginners

in short, linux mint is bad vs bazzite with kde for 3 reasons

kde is much more well supported and developed than cinnamon, it’s not even close especially if you care about security

immutable distros are much more forgiving for new people, immutable means that the core OS can’t be modified.

and finally bazzite has more up to date software, linux mint is a “stable” distro, stable in the linux context means unchanging, not unbuggy

if you don’t know what any of that means, go bazzite over mint, you’ll have an easier time.

Most sharks have this, hammerheads just specialize in it

It being merged means If you compile it from source it’ll work, there hasn’t been a release yet, and that release also has to be in your distros repos, so it’ll be bit

old games typically work better on linux than on modern windows versions