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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by madamelic on Thursday November 17, 2016 @03:19PM (#12981096)
I had the same opinion of Linux as you. I didn't want to tinker with it and get everything working well.

Just install Ubuntu. Ignore everyone saying Ubuntu is a kiddy OS ("All you need is X, Y, Z-ix"). Ubuntu is Linux Windows (not really, but it is pretty hard to mess up).

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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by reitanqild on Thursday November 17, 2016 @04:56PM (#12982098)
More like Mac Linux.

Neon or openSuse is more Windows-like IMO.

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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by dhimes on Thursday November 17, 2016 @05:55PM (#12982542)
Linux Mint rocks for ease of setup and use.
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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by alphapapa on Friday November 18, 2016 @01:32AM (#12984807)
Unfortunately Linux Mint does not track security issues or issue security updates. That alone is reason enough to avoid it completely, but then when you add in their server breach and the way they handled it...

Stick with Debian and Ubuntu. And more Debian, going forward.

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Re:The Joy of Linux Desktop Environments by dhimes on Friday November 18, 2016 @08:24AM (#12986532)
I get security updates pretty soon after they're released on the Debian mailing list, actually. Logging on this morning I have an update for the gstreamer issues.

I use Debian for servers though.

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