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>Benefit one was destroyed by Gnome3 (and, for a while, Unity) being the default in the beginner's distros

That statement seems inconsistent with itself. It's the default, you can change it.

What sold Linux for me was trying Ubuntu on an old dusty laptop that had been sitting in my closet for a few years. It installed fast and ran fast and I got a good feeling for it in less than an hour. If the default windowing system was slow back and awkard, I would never have had no idea there was another windowing system because I'd have had no motivation to learn more.

I think that in this statement 'default' with the word 'beginner' can be read as 'unchangeable' for the sake of this conversation.

It's no more difficult than installing any other program

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