This image was created by /u/[email protected] for this comment here: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/21735989. I had encouraged them to post it somewhere, but as far as I can tell, they never did.
Panel 1: “Installing Windows 20 years ago” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
Panel 2: “Installing Linux 20 years ago” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 3: “Installing Windows today” screenshot of a busy command line
Panel 4: “Installing Linux today” screenshot of install wizard with just a couple buttons
For anyone who’s coming from. Windows world desktop environment DE is just look and feel of is you can change it or i install multiple of those. Most famous are GNOME KDE, etc. Distro is something that someone packaged together DE and a tool (pakage? Managet) to gether there are essentially 3****** distros Debian :, rhel., and arch Ubuntu, Linux mint, popOS all Re derived from Debian while fedoro centos were all derived from RHEL bit f*cl Redhat and canonical. And msnjaro arach are all forks of arch and there are freebsd and susu which corpos like becausr of not licensing
If you arrnew and using old hardware then choose Debian or a year alternatives if you’re using bleeding edge hardware (newes than 1 year( then choose Fedora