Mint is good. Fedora & KDE might be a good choice because of the customization. Could be a nice way for her to make her desktop her very own creative project that inspires her to learn more about her computer and how it works. Fedora is pretty damn snappy. dnf is really easy and she could just use discover or whatnot to install apps.

Help her rice up her desktop a bit and show her how to install some programs. Maybe bookmark some tutorials for different programs you install and the OS of your choice.

Blender, kdenlive, krita, gimp, inkscape, strawberry for music, libreoffice, vlc, supertuxcart etc…

Then turn her loose and let her have fun.

I can see the benefit of matching style when working with others. I only code for myself and never had to worry about conformity for project consistency.

It is good to learn new things.

I’m sure I have some coding habitats that would annoy others.

That’s good to know. Don’t know how I didn’t know this. Been writing JS since 2000. Always just used them I guess. Ecmascripts look funny to me without them

Was looking at it and could not figure out why their weren’t any semicolon’s.

Garuda is pretty fucking awesome for an easy arch distro. Everything was installed correctly OOTB on my ASUS g733 with integrated/dedicated GPU so you don’t have to set Prime up yourself. Their KDE ricing in their dragonized version is the best I have found. Great gaming setup IMO. Easy beginner arch entry distro with all the bells and whistles. They have done a pretty good job with their garuda-update pacman wrapper and seems to handle most of the manual intervention during updates, uses reflector for mirrors on update too. Btrfs and snapper setup by default so rollback is easy as pie.

Been wanting to try catchy for a while though.

Fedora is a great option as well. Stable, well built and easy. Don’t really like flatpak that much but that’s just a personal preference. I really like dnf. Defiantly a good choice beginner distro.

Just so I have this right, fwupd will update the firmware with the new keys. Just fuzz on if you have to create a new secure-boot key yourself?

This one wishes you a happy sweet roll!

Every distro has limitations. Arch probably has the least. Every package is the newest possible giving you more options. You have to configure things yourself. Luckily there is no better resource that the arch wiki.

Here is the nvidia arch wiki page for you to look at.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA

If your looking for an ootb experiance there are easy arch distros like endeavour and garuda. You will still need to get acquainted with the arch wiki and general system maintenance.

Thanks for the heads up!

I tried Linux mint and other debian distros, and since i dont have the sufficient skill to manage linux, this time i’m choosing Kubuntu because of the KDE environment , which i like a lot

KDE is a great desktop and my personal favorite non tiling desktop. Very customizable! It can take a bit of time to set it up just the way you like. When moving to a new distro and using KDE getting your settings back the same as before can be a pain. Luckily there is konsave might come in handy in the future.

I know more about linux mint and kinda know how to work with him, but kubuntu never tried and i will try this time… but i have some questions if someone can help me.

Kubuntu is in the same family as Ubuntu. Mint is based on Ubuntu so you already know more than you think you do.

The ubuntu family of distros has great documentation and community to get help in as another commenter pointed out. Most of all your questions probably already have answers on their forums.

Kubuntu is ok for a new person on linux?

I think it is a good option for a newbie. Ubuntu is where I started my journey into linux many years ago.

I want to install apps/programms via flatpak, since this looks more easily for a newbie as me and because of the sandbox, which seems is good (?).

Flatpak is a great option for beginners! The sandbox is a nice feature. I dont really use them myself. Ubuntu has Snaps installed by default and snaps are similar to flatpak. Flatpak is a far better option IMO.

Make sure you read the Ubuntu or Kubuntu documentation on how to add the flatpak repo/PPA. If you get any errors you should search the kubuntu/ubuntu community forums for the right answers. If you cant find the answer you can always post there for an answer.

Other question is about flatpaks from flathub. I know flatpak usually dont follow the theme of my DE. Which is the best way these flatpaks have the same theme as my DE? Is using the flatseal? Any tip about this?

I have never used flatpak so I dont know the best way of theming them. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable will come along with a better answer than I have on this.

Other question I have, is about some apps i want to install if i dont find it or just find it on github or something similar. I find an app that really like but this app dont appear in any store, and this app is only available on github via flatpak and .deb . In this case, since the app is not available on flathub or diskover, or via command lines (like sudo apt install firefox - if you understand me) , how can i check this is not a virus or can do bad things on my linux? I use total virus for this, and the checks gives zero flags, but would like to know if for example, i install this programm via flatpak, can break my system.

Finding trusted software outside the official repositories can be difficult. Like the other commenter said try to vet the github app as best you can. You can always ask in the kubuntu/ubuntu forums. There might be a similar alternative app already in the Kubuntu apps.

Another option is to ask here on lemmy. People here might have experience with the app your interested in using. People here might know of a better alternative. Many of us lemmings are helpful geeks that are happy to help.

And, btw, if you can give me some tips and advice as linux/kubuntu newbie, it would be amazing for my journey. Cheers all!

Here on lemmy there is a linuxupskillchallenge@programming.dev community. It’s just a bot that posts about a free linux course. The course starts every month on or around the first. It’s a good way to get your feet wet so to speak.

Don’t worry if it’s a bit over your head. That’s how the best journeys begin. We all start somewhere.

If you have questions or problems the Kubuntu forums would be my first stop. You can always ask questions here on lemmy too. Like I said earlier, we are a bunch of knowledgeable nerds and most if us don’t mind helping or pointing you in the right direction.

Welcome to your linux journey.

alias SickBoyDo="sudo !!"

steamtinkerlaunch has a mo2 and a vortex installer. I suggest the mo2. Playing skyrim with 400 mods and ENB as well as FO4 with 500 mods with ENB NAC. Both running extremely well on my nv3080. Well still have the FO4 NG stutter but overall playable.

Might have a hard time modding Starfield though. Last I checked STL installs an outdated mo2 version.

I have started modding cp2077 but haven’t given it much time.

There is also rockerbacon’s version. I think you can use lutris to install it. I think this is the newest version of MO2 so should work with Starfield. I recently tried it but the installer was complaining about a gtk-theme I have installed. I use KDE and whatever gtk theme I have is not compatible. Was in the middle of rewriting it in kdialog but i hit a snag and forgot about it. My bash is rubbish!

The biggest differences are STL is a whole program designed around proton/wine and offers a ton of tweaks that are as easy as clicking a button or dropdown for the most part. STL offers a single instance MO2 install using symbolic linking to all your game prefixes. While rockerbacon’s is meant to be installed for each game. Both have their benefits and drawbacks.

Both devs are pretty fucking cool!

STL’s interface is a bit odd at times but is well documented. Dont ever scroll over the right side of the Game Menu GUI as you can change settings you don’t mean to. That said it works pretty damn well.

The only thing I miss about X11 is xscreensaver. I hope the dev makes a port for wayland one day. I dont care if it ever has screen locking, i just want bouncing cows.

I’m from a very conservative state. They are very proud of and use public land, sometimes daily just like I do. The conservatives I know are not happy about this at all!

It is probably more your OS fingerprint. Use a useragent switcher and see if that helps.

At some point though you have to wonder if that is even worth it. Best of luck!

Been using it on arch for three years, pretty solid fs if ask me. Even started using it for all my external drives. Never had a problem.

You can scrub and balance your fs with brrfs -assistant. Snapper is awesome. Still use deja-dup for a bit of daily backups of personal working files in $USER.

Wanted to say thanks, it defiantly pointed be in the right direction!

Sick I’ll give her a whirl.