I agree that an immutable distro is probably good for newcomers, but KDE is also full of features most windows users never need or want to touch even. Saying that as someone who primarily runs Solus Budgie since 2017, a Steamdeck with KDE and many different VMs with gnome/kde/xfce/… Also installed Zorin years ago for family, still running and they are happy.

I rather take a distro/DE where 98% i want is working out of the box than one where 200% of features i never need need to be removed/customized first. Why am I using Solus? Because it has a well curated software repo and not every piece of code ever and yet I still managed to run everything I wanted over the years on it. Over all those years it was an install once, upgrade forever distro that just works.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 5 points 5 days ago (6 children)

I have the absolute opposite of your opinion :D

Immutable distros are not good for beginners, for two main reasons:

A lot of general-purpose Linux guides just don't work with them, making newbies confused and forcing them to learn a lot of new stuff when they're not ready
Some software just doesn't run with immutable distros - for example, most VPNs are not ready

Setting btrfs snapshots on respective directories, so folks can rollback unwanted changes? Great! Tying people's hands? Might come with complications.

KDE is a brilliant DE for people coming from Windows: it has similar layout, it stands out of your way, and overall has a very easy learning curve. I've never seen anyone seriously stuck with setting up anything it has to offer, and yet, it's very, very customizable. Folks I offered it to either stayed with the defaults and were totally happy with it, or immediately started tuning everything to their liking with no issues whatsoever.

After all, someone who didn't touch Windows for a while might forget how much convoluted are settings there, and how Windows users are ready to dig through them.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

VPN software can work just fine on immutable, you just might need to layer it or install it as a local package.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

That doesn't sound easy enough for a new player

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 4 days ago

If you can install a package on another distro, you can do it on Bazzite

load more comments (3 replies)

load more comments (4 replies)