u/MIkaela39752

a lot of people say that "linux works!!! until it doesnt..." but the same thing can be said for windows as well, what if you update and idk lets say your bluetooth wireless buds refuse to connect? have fun figuring how to fix that, or or, lets say windows doesnt properly change the codec, i have samsung buds, SBC codec = amazing sound but no mic, mSBC codec = bad sound but mic support, how do i change that on windows? on fedora with kde plasma i just go to the right bottom corner and click on volume and then click 3 dots next to the audio device im using and select what codec to use
i also ran my AI discord bot which used a local LLM on windows and after a windows update it stopped working, right after i updated, i didnt know how to fix that

i actually think linux is pretty simple really, well, at least linux distros like fedora, ubuntu, mint and so on are, the installation is extremely simple as well, and things run just fine on them, i dont see what makes them "difficult" in any sense, difficulty wise its pretty comparable to windows in my opinion and ive used linux for nearly a year now

what makes it "central" ?

i always see mint get recommended (with cinnamon) and thats fine, i think linux mint is great but i think plasma gets left aside usually even though honestly in my opinion its the best DE period, i even helped my 2 friends switch to linux (i didnt force them, they asked me to help them first) and i recommended them fedora linux with kde as their first and theyre loving it, they also later on tried mint with cinnamon and they didnt like it, they saw that desktop environment as basically like a worse version of kde plasma, like knockoff plasma
and honestly i agree, i know this is just our opinions and its subjective and all that but i feel like people should recommend beginner friendly distros with kde more often, desktop environments kind of get ignored even though theyre VERY important since theyre the first thing you see when you boot into the linux distro, they create the first impression of the distro even though it isnt "related" to the specific distro in the first place
i think the desktop environment makes a bigger difference for someone new to linux than the distro itself