Comments by "Zer0" (@ForeverZer0) on "Stop Recommending Niche Linux Distros!" video.

  1. I honestly think that for newcomers, it is more important to explain the difference in desktop environments, and worry less so about the distro it is running on. They will learn the differences and experiment on their own in time, but it is not beneficially to overload them with distro names that are all equally meaningless to them. They are going to base their initial experience based on what the DE is, not the nuances of package management, init systems, X11/Wayland, etc, etc., which are foreign concepts to a Windows user anyways. While I don't neither a DE nor a Debian(-based) distro, my typical approach is to have them look at screens for GNOME and Plasma, decide which they like better purely based on aethestics, and then choose a popular Debian(-based) distro that supports it. They can experiment and distro-hop all they want later, just get them up and running with something that isn't broken, and they enjoy the appearance of.
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  2.  @zezba9000  Which is why I don't recommend a tiling WM to someone coming from Windows/Mac and new to Linux, even though it my personal preference. I recommend they use Gnome/Plasma n order to get an experience that is most akin to what they are already used to. Everyone was new to Linux at some point, it is only natural to try and apply what you already know to something new. The differences will need learned, and the point is to make that experience as frictionless as possible.
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