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    Year of Linux on the Desktop (lemmy.world)
    submitted 10 months ago by Limonene@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world
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    2024 is the Year of Linux on the Desktop, at least for my boyfriend. He's running Windows 7 right now, so I'll be switching him to Ubuntu in a few days. Ubuntu was chosen because Proton is officially supported in Ubuntu.

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    [โ€“] asuka@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    Fedora more or less just works. I followed, like, 5 simple steps on the top Google result for "installing nvidia drivers fedora" and that was all it took. No further configuration or fiddling required.

    [โ€“] unknown@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago

    I've done it. I agree it can be done very easily. But is relying on all new users entering the right question into google and google returning a correct answer for their distro that is not 7 years out of date the best strategy in the long run?

    Any distro that does not offer a option during install or on first boot to just install this stuff with a promt is not new user friendly.