• Kryptkravler@lemmy.world
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      22 天前

      Why are people promoting this, all of a sudden?

      Edit: I went to the website and saw the “Pro” paid option. It’s starting to make sense now.

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        Why are people promoting this, all of a sudden?

        They just released a new version a few days ago that’s really solid and aims to be a drop-in replacement for Windows. It’s probably the most beginner friendly distro out there and has stuff like Onedrive/MS 365 integration for people using that stuff.

        The paid version is useless unless you need support.

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        22 天前

        “Why are people promoting beginner friendly distros on a post about reasons to switch?”

        U are right, lets promote Nix and Gentoo here

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          22 天前

          Mint was the default suggestion for people switching from Windows until a few days ago, and then Zorin popped up.

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            Yeah true that mint is the default. But if you look up any beginner distro recommendation then zorin is often also mentioned. Zorin 18 released last week so it’s a getting a bit more mentions then normal. But look up any beginner distro video or article and it’s always mint and zorin. Zorin has been around since 2009

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          Gentoo is the best OS I’ve ever tried.

          With install script and automatic updates it would be OK for 95% of people.

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            22 天前

            Thats awesome, personally never tried it. But it keeps popping up in “hard distros” discussions.

            Man all these install scripts are making every distro too accessible 🤣🤣 /s

            Only way too stay cool now is to switch to hannah montana os, or freebsd lol

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        Yeah it’s like, Zorin was the Trendy Distro Of The Month a few years ago. Cachy, Bazzite, at least two others ago. Like Zorin was right after Pop!_OS got a lot of praise for having the Nvidia version of the ISO.