Now if only I could hack up top to show which bedrock stratum each process running from, like paradigm did for me one christmas with (a now old version of) htop, I might consider learning how to use top.

Htop’s hard to beat.

Others, like btop, are too heavy, too try-hard.

Would be nice if top were as convenient and easy. Oh wait, that’s basically htop, again.

XFCE’s been going the longest and strongest, unbroken.

Though, the user can install them all, try them all, on almost any distro. GNOME, Mate, Trinity, KDE Plasma, XFCE, Cosmic, Cinnamon, etc etc. And/or just window managers, Icewm, i3, fluxbox, for a fairly easy time from the start, or more fangled things like xmonad, herbstluftwm, dwm, etc. … I dont know the wayland things. Dozens to try.

Point being, well raised here, is that the distro does not matter so much, and new users need introduced to what the freedom means, specifically in how when you select your distro, you’re not stuck with the desktop environment it first provides.

PS, GNOME’s bad news, on multiple levels. Don’t get me started. NSFL horrors lurk.

Installing Gentoo, for the first time, especially as a newbie to linux, is like the jump program in The Matrix movie.

“Everybody fails the first time.”

“But what if he doesn’t?”

Even if you’re not “the one”, the attempt would sure be a great learning experience. Alas, that was specifically stipulated against in the OP’s criteria, on the first line:

I don’t want to go on a full learning process from the start

Deb based on nvidia always went well for me.

* Shrug *

I ran pure Devuan for a couple years on such hardware. (Besides that, all Suse, Sabayon, Gentoo, BedrockLinux, VoidLinux, all happy, did go well.).

Sure, Pop!OS’ll likely be fine.

AntiX first sprang to mind before reading further through your list.

Mint, MXLinux, and SuSe also came to mind.

Not sure how well each and every part sought is covered. Though probably almost any distro will do.

PS: https://distrowatch.com/search.php?ostype=All&category=Beginners&origin=All&basedon=All&notbasedon=None&desktop=All&architecture=All&package=All&rolling=All&isosize=All&netinstall=All&language=All&defaultinit=All&status=Active#simpleresults

I’ve done the impossible/insane on the other side… manually imported a live system from usb into bedrock.

If I then did an unbedrocking… that’s a fun double janky way to install a live ISO to “exactly” like it is on the live system.

… I’d never do that though. If I did, I’d just re-hijack it again, back to bedrock.

Yup. Too easy. Cheat codes.

Always good to remind Americans the rest of the world exists. ;-)

I enjoyed their pedantry.

True.

Especially when wearing one that’s too big and loose.

Yeah, (as I recall) that bigoted bias in USA gets even more damning when looking at the victim’s demographics instead.

The Karens cry loudest, like they’re the only victims, or like they’re magnanimously mending the situation for everybody, when they’re already the 1%ers of victim pride.

Hush you. Men are supposed to just take it. Women and children first.

No emotional support for men. Keep the demands on them. Keep berating them for striving to meet those demands. Keep taking away their ability to support a family. Keep demanding them to. Keep judging men with the hasty generalisation fallacy, ignoring the statistical outliers. Keep men dying younger. Keep saying “patriarchy” like all men are all advantaged rulers. ;-}

I, for one, for sure, would be grateful for the hard hat in a ROPS event. Even a FOPS event.

My tenuous guess, Scandi/Germanic… But that’s just her in the cab.

I don’t know the machinery well enough to hazard a guess.

But even if still there, then yeah, there’d for sure be safety regs insisting on hard hats all the time on site.

Yup. Beat me to it. In and out, easiest place to keep it, still on your head.

That’s not how maths works.

[Excuse me while I “mansplain”] But if women want to increase their violent crimes to match men’s, they need to increase by an additional 300%. This would result in a total increase of violent crimes of 60% more violent crime.

C’mon girls! Try harder!

Do your part to achieve equality!

Then maybe men can cease being expected to open doors, put toilet seats down, put women and children first, die in wars, buy dinner and flowers, carry all the heavy things, fend off attackers, fix everything, [(quietly)] die younger, thrive without emotional support, be sole provider as a trad-hubby gentleman sigma-male feminist-ally bad-boy softie stoic emoting funny but only in a specific way and tall but not too tall and looking good with a six-pack without spending time working on it and whatever else in the cluster of impossible contradictions, alone.

I use something like 9 gentoos.

All the best garbage to learn from, to debug, debug, debug, sharpening those skills.

Heh. That’s a fun chart. If that’s programming aptitude, I scored 80 on that part of the broad spectrum aptitude test I got a sneak-peek chance to do several parts of. Well now I know why I’m so easily in agreement with “senior coders”, if it is programming aptitude quotient. If it’s just iq, … pulls hood up to block the glare.

Daunting that there may be a middling bias getting apparent advantages. Evolution may not serve us well like that.

And many between “seniour developers everywhere” and “a layman who never wrote code in his life”.

Like me, I’m saying it too. A big ol “No duh”.

Disbelieve the hype.