(Not sure if this is a rant.)
My mom got a Surface Pro a few days ago. I'm kinda happy because she'll be using more tech stuff. I mean, she used to do most of her work on her phone or on plain paper. Maybe she'll warm up towards using a laptop and maybe I can slowly introduce her to Linux. 🤔
Any suggestions for a Linux distro for a complete newbie?

Without too much of a visual change from windows: ZorinOS

Apparently Mint is great too
If it works

@irene If you can pinpoint problems right now, that'd be awesome.

I'd recommend Zorin, Mint or Kubuntu! (have a surface 3 pro running Kubuntu myself).

@irene Well I actually think that Linux can be easier to use than Windows. A lot of things and settings in Windows are burried in menus.

@irene First point, fair enough. Second one, most graphical package managers include easy repository management as far as I'm aware.

As for the config settings in obscure places, I guess that depends on your knowledge of the system because this is mostly very logical but I guess you could the exact same about windows.

@irene Yeah, I know. But whether you need config files on Linux or windows, you'd need to know where to find them in either system and those system will both have their own login on this one.

I genuinely wouldn't have a single clue as for where to look for softwares config files on windows. On Linux I know but I know Linux quite well so yeah. I'm a windows noob, yes.

@irene Well yeah, the same accounts for Linux programs (except for the cli ones but we're talking about GUI ones).
I do use a DE and I can't think of a program which doesn't have in-program settings.

@irene I was talking about desktop applications, not the DE itself. Although, gnome does have quite some settings you can adjust without the Gnome Tweak Tool.

Then, I don't like gnome anyways so I don't use it.

@irene I have used it as main DE but I don't like it so switched to KDE :)

KDE is so freaking configurable that its nearly painful, BUT, that's only if you want to. By default it works great as well and I just want a dark theme, that's enough for me.

@irene Whyso? Regardless, thats fine, there are plenty of DE's to choose from ;)

@irene I've heard that before and monitored it for a while and I've never seen it going above 200mb while gnome and cinnamon can easily go past 500mb.

Wondering where everyone us getting/seeing this 🤔

@irene Do you know of any way to compare the graphic usage between DE's?