I realize this is impressionistic but for the sake of the conceit:

“Mac” flavored (PopOS, ZorinOS?)

“Windows” flavored (Mint?)

“Linux” flavored (Fedora?)

Edit: was not aware 1) Distro & 2) Desktop Environment are seperate/distinct. Good to learn

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.worldOP
    2·
    12 hours ago

    No offense taken, I know very little about Linux currently so its all the same fine to me as a jumping off point or analogy to begin from.

    Things can be incorrect or “inapt” yet still have value as a stepping stone to the discourse about whatever :)

    I personally find it much easier to understand and learn things by being safely/comfortably wrong at many different points (especially at the beginning) and get corrected by a more knowledgable god samaritan. If you’re never or not often enough wrong (like memorizing things by rote or just accepting and memorizing what anybody says) or not hypothesizing you dont develop a connection to the domain

    • yxc999@lemmy.ml
      1·
      12 hours ago

      First of, good on you to want to get deeper into it, you won’t regret it! Opinions have to be formed at some point or another, same goes for developing a sense for what sounds accurate or not. I do agree that Mint is easy and intuitive to use for most non-technical folk like idk, your parents maybe, and I do often recommend it myself, but visually? No similarity at all in the design-language in my opinion haha

      What are you currently leaning towards?