It was forced on to my computer.

My dad recently skipped Win 11 and switched to Linux Mint from Win 10 at the insistence of his new techie comp science student gf. Successfully converted. 🫡

That's only because I left for Linux.

Tarball detected, would you like to xzf?

Unless we are all techies we don't have much to switch to.

What's even the difference? Same shit, a bit JS added.

I'm not a RedHat fan (actually very explicitly not a fan), but frankly Fedora with Gnome seems as problematic as Windows at worst, and very easy to install.

I was looking how to autologin on an old laptop that is used as a media player on my tv, followed the instructions but turns out thay whole section of the settings is missing for some reason.
Had to look wtf and turns out there's a fix but it requires me sitting and taking my time with it (which I won't have for a while), nobody else can do it but it bothers me to no end... Why the fuck did it happened in the first place? How can it's own installer miss things?

Different version, probably.

I think the way to approach this is creating a PR that a simple (plenty of people autologin on Windows) functionality is hard to find. It's also very valuable feedback for the developers, they usually have sort of tunnel vision and see completely different things as terribly important for users, while some really important (and maybe easy to do) just skip because in their skewed view it's not pressing.

That could be replaced with proper QA and lots of testing on focus groups and so on, but we live in 2025, nobody does things properly anymore.

Worse part is it's damn Fedora KDE, they are meant to be user-friendly, this would make my sister go back to windows in less than a second

More telemetry, more AI.

I found Mint rather simple to install. That said, I am a techie. I am using several different distros in my house, but I wanted to live in Mint for a while to see how well a non-techie might fare. My reasoning was that since Ubuntu (Mint's parent) is rather ubiquitous, there is more development and more attention paid to support and troubleshoot issues. So far, so good. Yes, being tech literate does help, but I think a non-techie could live with Linux. And over time, the environment will become more known like Windows is now.

And they moved the start menu.

No Internet Explorer (replaced by probably JavaScript app)

You always had the choice to install Linux, and still do. Dont let them control your PC.

There's plenty of tutorials on YouTube to walk you through installing all the major linux distros. And distros like mint are pretty streamlined now. It's pretty straight forward. And there's a good community here that is always willing to help.