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I still don't get why Mint with its legacy Cinnamon desktop is recommended to new Linux users."
Now, we're not fighting, but I need you to see what you did. This right here is just a milder version of what I had to sort through just to get started. I started using Mint before I came to Lemmy, and Reddit's Linux subs are just as helpful, forgiving and accepting as the community here. Long time users are snarky, snobby and honestly not very helpful. It's not just Arch users. It was like Muscle Beach, but digital. Just flexing, no help at all. Then a user suggested that Mint would be a painless transition and they were right. It worked on the first install and within an hour I had Thunderbird opening my email, Blender set back up just like I had it on my poor dead windows 10 desktop, had my slicer. I haven't argued with anything. I've never opened the terminal. That's why Noobs are often pointed to Mint. And I won't leave it without a mighty good reason. My computer gets used for some of my hobbies, but computers quit being a hobby for me nearly 30 years ago.
Yes, I see now that this is not helpful at all. I'll put a disclaimer in front of it. I don't want to write a comment like that again.
I came to Linux without the "help" of social media as we know it today. That may be part of the reason, why I did not make such a experience myself. I remember asking someone from a higher semester in university how to burn a CD on Linux. They gave me three lines of cli and the name of another GUI tool I don't remember. They didn't tell which distro or environment to use. They must have assumed, I will find it on any of them.
That response in the past should've been and will be my guideline.