I've been a daily-driver desktop user of Linux for something like 5 or 6 years now. To work on a expansion of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, I installed it on a PC as a dual boot, and it uses GNOME. It's terrible and with it being the default on a lot of the go-to beginner Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), I'd argue it's holding Linux adoption back. You get someone techy enough to actually try it, they see something like "hey Ubuntu is easy for beginners," then get put off by that crap.
Yeah, I’d probably push a new user to Fedora KDE. It’s annoying to say because they are oozed too, but for something that works well it’s a good start. I started with Kubuntu for about the first year and it gave me too many little unnecessary issues. It’s really not that good, and it’s a wonder I stuck it out.
I've been a daily-driver desktop user of Linux for something like 5 or 6 years now. To work on a expansion of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux certification, I installed it on a PC as a dual boot, and it uses GNOME. It's terrible and with it being the default on a lot of the go-to beginner Linux (e.g. Ubuntu), I'd argue it's holding Linux adoption back. You get someone techy enough to actually try it, they see something like "hey Ubuntu is easy for beginners," then get put off by that crap.
I hate all the shilling for Ubuntu. My initial experience with it put me off Linux for a while
Yeah, I’d probably push a new user to Fedora KDE. It’s annoying to say because they are oozed too, but for something that works well it’s a good start. I started with Kubuntu for about the first year and it gave me too many little unnecessary issues. It’s really not that good, and it’s a wonder I stuck it out.
Unfortunately so many apps are still reliant on GTK so it's hard to avoid gnome completely