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If not Ethernet then could use live arch and pacstrap

The eco system is frustrating, as soon as i see “plasma” or “k” as the first letter of a package name I can be sure that it’ll have 20 other packages as dependencies, about half of the 20 are full featured gui applications

Depends on the person, I didn’t get on well with many distros, I like tinkering, arch afforded me that.

Some people are happy jumping in the deepend and having converter distros may alienate some new users.

Not sure to be honest, my experience with MX and Debian are limited, I like how MX looks, had no issues using in in the small amount of time I had used MX linux and I’m a sucker for good theming

You sound like you’d be pretty capable, I personally use arch, less perceived limitations. Endeavour is the better choice between endeavour and manjaro.

MX if you just want a os with beautiful theming.

Either way good luck.

Are you trying to start a war? Hopefully no one mentions wayland vs xorg else it might go nuclear

i would have gone the rest have my life using “of” instead have using “have”

Interesting good or interesting bad? I’m from UK Devon

think youd of eventually used linux without the intervention of the steam deck?

I’d of thought steam and proton would of been a large contributing factor

Syncthing is robust, used it for my encrypted passwords (KeepassXD) on home network, not vouching for its safety just a use case

Foot but its limited for the averaged user. While it does support most standards its got no ui, configuration is done through a text editor and foots config file.

Personally I like it. Light weight and robust

Kitty is a great choice But I also enjoyed konsole for its SSH Alias’s

Ive always considered updates to be updates, akin to windows updates… But also say this is a problem how should someone fix it, making arbitrary graphical changes to ui? Update system without the users knowledge or changing the terminology?

I did but you mention menjaro a lot it felt as if you’d skipped what I had posted.

Ive used Linux since Ubuntu 12 but had no understanding of the deep Linux system so I never stuck with it, then budgie came out (the os) which was great but limited, soon after moved to manjaro where I found out aur packages would brick my machine so move on to arch where I have stayed. Ive not had many issues and when I do I know how to handle them, ive never looked at arch news (maybe a sign of complacency) but even so ive been able to fix what minimal issues ive had (in my experience)

For some people who are new user, having system with more controls is a compelling position, one that the community needs to understand and not repeat the same 3 distros or chew out others for suggesting arch.

If a new user shows genuine interest beyond web browsing then arch and its variant deserve a mention.

I wouldn’t recommend manjaro, the devs have made way too many mistakes. Hense I crossed out manjaro in the list.

Gnomes box’s is actually pretty great for new users

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sorry it doesn’t click for you, I grow up with severe dyslexia unable to read and write till the age of 18 which coincides with when I became interested in computers, so maybe for me flags are easier then apt get install update commands and the orders they go in

And I stopped using git commands once I found yay

And every GUI app store ive dealt with has an option to enable aur packages

Motioneye was one application and yea its not for a regular users but the only time ive imported pgp keys on arch was for mullvad VPN, and on a few more niche applications. Maybe I am just incredible lucky.