Serious question: For those wanting to run Linux, and not having experience in the command line, which distro would you recommend? Gotta be as user-friendly as possible.
Mint or Solus.
Solus was specifically designed to be for normal people and for you to have to use the terminal as infrequently as possible. However, the software selection is more limited than in other distros.
Linspire or Linux Mint
But you should get used to the console, just start using it, it’s fun
Ubuntu Cinnamon is what’d I recommend more if you’re starting out and want to play video games. Lutris dropped support for Linux Mint because both parties were a bit too stubborn on making the appropriate changes that would work for everyone (iirc, LM packaged drivers differently and Lutris wanted it a bit more standard to work efficiently. And immovable object had met an unstoppable force)
I would seriously recommend you use gentoo for a bit. It is not user friendly, you use the command line constantly, the install process is mostly manual. But nothing teaches you the fundamentals like using it.
Now, personally I did this on a second PC as a home server hobby. Dunno if I’d recommend it for a novice wanting a desktop experience.
“Hey I need this to be user friendly and simple.”
“Use not insert user friendly distro so you can get better even though you’re probably one of the 99% of humanity that doesn’t need their computer for more than dicking around on a web browser and couldn’t give less of a fuck about OS’s and computers.”
This is why no one wants to use fucking Linux.
