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To: Openurmind

Which distribution would that be?


17 posted on 12/03/2022 2:50:06 PM PST by OKSooner ("Oh, the mad fools!")
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To: OKSooner; Openurmind
> Which distribution would that be? (that doesn't need the command line)

It's possible to run Ubuntu 20.04 or 22.04 completely from the GUI, assuming of course that your applications are GUI (browser, mail, office apps, etc.) and that the GUI-based system config and update apps do what you need (likely true for most users).

As a system admin, I've lived in the command line (terminal) by choice for many decades on every system I work on (Linux, Windows, MacOS) but that's not required for normal user operation.

21 posted on 12/03/2022 3:01:50 PM PST by dayglored (Strange Women Lying In Ponds Distributing Swords - Arthur Pendragon 2024)
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To: OKSooner

I have tried about all of the most popular now, and always go back to Mint with Cinnamon as the best so far. It is based on Ubuntu but I have found it to be better than Ubuntu. But most of the newer major distros are full point and click GUI and use of the command line is rarely needed. Maybe if you absolutely cannot live without an outdated app, some of those older ones require command line install. Or if you are doing some techy work like building your own VPN server. But for a normal user, the new ones are no more complicated than windows. In fact, Mint cinnamon is almost a straight across trade for Win 7. :)


22 posted on 12/03/2022 3:04:59 PM PST by Openurmind (The ultimate test of a moral society is the kind of world it leaves to its children. ~ D. Bonhoeffer)
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To: OKSooner
Which distribution would that be?

Mint is the easiest I've encountered so far.

33 posted on 12/03/2022 3:50:45 PM PST by Lee N. Field ("He will swallow up death forever" Isaiah 25)
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