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That is a kinda sane order tho
Normally people just install Ubuntu or Linux Mint (because it has Linux in the name or something) and use modded GNOME or some weird niche desktop, thinking this is peak Linux experience.
(Needed to do Mint tech support over the holidays again... yeah it is strange)
I didn't want to deal with choosing so I just went with Linux Mint and the default choice (Cinnamon) but it seemed glitchy and I couldn't configure it the way I wanted, so switched to xfce. Haven't felt the need to try other stuff since.
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choosing a linux distro can be hard for newcomers. that's why i recommend going on distrowatch and picking a easy to use distro. i know it's weird advice but thats how i wound up picking a linux distro and never looked back.
I started building my own kernel day 1 because I'm a techno masochist.
Clearly there's an unwarranted assumption baked into this comic that one needs a desktop environment. I have my non-headless Linux systems set up to run the emptty display manager using the Linux console:
Which then launches the Sway compositor without having Sway start any desktop environment if I want to log into a graphical environment. That's my favorite option. Let's not impose an artificially-restricted set of choices, here. :-)
Ubuntu and Mint have default DEs, and they're literally the only two popular recommendations for newbies
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