Interesting. He chose Manjaro KDE. Makes sense given Anthony is an Arch fan and he counseled Linus. I mean Manjaro is the most noob-friendly Arch based distro.
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Except when it breaks and the 
hits the fan. Which happens from time to time. But I understand what you are saying.
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I would choose Endeavour over Pop 
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I am not sure if itâs their DE, but I feel like they have many issues. I usually just rock XFCE or WMs(like i3). A lot of issues I did not know I had went away when I switched from NVIDIA to AMD; I believe the both of them are running NVIDIA GPUs
I first started with zorin on my laptop and it was smooth sailing, but that was 6-7 years ago now.
This is a misnomer, Manjaro is not Linux noob friendly at all, that is just a marketing blurb.
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The only thing noob friendly about manjaro is the installer and a lot of Arch based distros have an easy install these days. Outside of that I think a noob would be better off with an Arch install. EOS accomplishes that. There is very little in the way of documentation form Arch that would not work on EOS, the same cannot be said of Manjaro.
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well the only two things that make it ânoob friendlyâ is the use of pamac gui to install software and their own hardware tool to install things like nvidia drivers via gui. However, when I used manjaro, it once borked the nvidia driver for everyone, and I found it difficult to figure out what was going on and how to fix it. In eos, I rather like that the commands and everything is close to arch, so I can use the arch wiki or here eos to fix things. I feel manjaro, things are obscured a bit by their own twist on arch, with some modified commands. This is very confusing to me, and why I prefer EOS.
Edits: But for short term fix, someone who doesnât know anything, perhaps they are better off with manjaro. But if something break they are at loss.
We can see this here too, some users have absolutely no patience or willingness to learn, if something breaks and canât be fixed within 1 second, they tell us they want to switch to manjaro. I say good luck in the long run! For these users, I recommand rather ubuntu, something toddler proof.
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He isnât really a noob in the sense that if we describe things to him in technical terms he will understand. So I would say that instead of moving towards a generalist distro where relatively everything works out of the box, he will choose a distro which will require more time to configure as he wishes, because it is a person who has the seem to like technology in general.
The long awaited part 1 video is out. Here is our official answer, even though Linus leaked it himself. 
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Coward! 
Should go full LFS, wouldnât have that much problemsâŚ
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I like how he uninstalled Pop_OS
sudo apt-get install steam
I bet Pop_OS Kicking themselves over that one
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If he drives like his dad then youâre probably better off.
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Linus trying to install Steam on PopOS! was objectively entertaining 
Should have choose EndeavourOS 
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That really must hurt. The one thing that many people are interested in and they blew it. And now a lot of people will probably use Manjaro, because of that specific error, instead of using PopOS.
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yeah, a great opportunity for more exposure, what a damn shame, bad timing I guess!!
Well at least linux is getting some exposure, so its not all bad 
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The problem is that dude is not ready for Linux. He says windows is faster than Linux, and we are all biased because we have been using Linux too long. I call it out as bs.
The only thing I agree is that Linux is for people who like to mess with their computer 
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What happened to him shouldnât ever really happen, but also he had to type a bit more than just âyâ or hit enter to do it so it wasnât just âblindlyâ accepting prompts like a ânormal userâ would.
Having said that that was giant wall of what looked like unformatted code it spat out before the are you sure you want to do this prompt, that would be hard for anyone to digest when all you wanted to do was install steam.
He has some valid points but he can come off a bit dickish and heâs playing up the whole ânormal userâ thing a bit much imo
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He didnât have a choice really, he was under time restraints and had to get steam installed, unlucky for him the steam package was corrupt at that time, which I believe was an ubuntu pkg fault?
Anybody using apt at that time would have had the same issue, switching distro was the only thing he could do. Good job he hadnât configured it all before that
and yes that shouldnât ever happen.
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This was my first reaction too. It says - paraphrasing - âit will break your systemâ, âonly proceed if you know what youâre doingâ. That should be a big, red flag.
On the other hand the pop_os manual advice to use the terminal: https://support.system76.com/articles/linux-gaming/ As a ânormalâ person I would assume that everything recommended there should be safe to âacceptâ with a âyes, do thatâ.
As some have pointed out there might be a cultural divide between a commercial system that warns you all the time and still holds your hand (Windows) and a system where devs are rarely motivated to code a gazillion failure-edge-case-warnings and you should take those seriously when you encounter them (Linux).
It is a shame that Linus had such a rocky start with linux (PopOS).
I used windows my whole life and I switched to EndeavourOS at the end of september and I will not switch back to Windows. EndeavourOS is a great OS in my opinion and it works just as good as Windows. Only gaming currently feels better on Windows but that is not really the fault of linux and it is getting better and better.
The difference between me and Linus is that Iâm also happy to use the console to get something done. I get what he is going for in his video but some things seem impossible if you only want to use the UI.
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