5 Feb 2022 8:38:26 Yaacov Zamir <kobi.za...@gmail.com>: > Hi, > > Sorry for the off topic answer > I was trying to think what I would recommend, and found that I would give > different answers depending on the needs of the specific beginner. > Do they want to try out the desktop environment, e.g. gnome KDE? > Do they want to learn to be linux sys admins? > Do they want to learn to program linux specific applications, drivers? > Do they want to learn linux containers, virtulization? > What type of beginner do you have in mind? > > בתאריך יום ו׳, 4 בפבר׳ 2022, 09:11 PM, מאת Shachar Shemesh > <shac...@shemesh.biz>: >> >> Title pretty much says it all. Should beginners on Linux be directed toward >> trying out WSL? >> >> >> I have my own opinion, but I'd like to hear others as well. >> >> >> Thank you, >> >> Shachar >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Linux-il mailing list >> Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il >> http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il > _______________________________________________ > Linux-il mailing list > Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il > http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il Tl;dr what is the intended application?
An analogous question came up previously elsewhere, only instead of WSL, the subject was Arch. I think my line of reasoning still applies: First question is why? Why do you want to run Linux? If you have a box and time to spare and you want to dive down the rabbit hole and don't care how long it takes to get a functioning machine, then Arch is fine. You want to just slap something on a computer that will run as a desktop so you can work, probably Fedora or Ubuntu. You want to throw together a server, go for a RHEL clone like Rocky (or sign up for a Red Hat developer account and install official/use their documentation).
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