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<p>5 Feb 2022 8:38:26 Yaacov Zamir <kobi.zamir@gmail.com>:</p>
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Hi,
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Sorry for the off topic answer
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I was trying to think what I would recommend, and found that I would give different answers depending on the needs of the specific beginner.
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Do they want to try out the desktop environment, e.g. gnome KDE?
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Do they want to learn to be linux sys admins?
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Do they want to learn to program linux specific applications, drivers?
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Do they want to learn linux containers, virtulization?
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What type of beginner do you have in mind?
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בתאריך יום ו׳, 4 בפבר׳ 2022, 09:11 PM, מאת Shachar Shemesh <<a href="mailto:shachar@shemesh.biz">shachar@shemesh.biz</a>>:
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<p>Title pretty much says it all. Should beginners on Linux be directed toward trying out WSL?</p>
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<p>I have my own opinion, but I'd like to hear others as well.</p>
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<p>Thank you,</p>
<p>Shachar<br> </p>
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</div> <span dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">Tl;dr what is the intended application?</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">An analogous question came up previously elsewhere, only instead of WSL, the subject was Arch. I think my line of reasoning still applies:</span>
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<br> <span dir="ltr" style="font-family:sans-serif;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0">First question is why? Why do you want to run Linux? If you have a box and time to spare and you want to dive down the rabbit hole and don't care how long it takes to get a functioning machine, then Arch is fine. You want to just slap something on a computer that will run as a desktop so you can work, probably Fedora or Ubuntu. You want to throw together a server, go for a RHEL clone like Rocky (or sign up for a Red Hat developer account and install official/use their documentation).</span>
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