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This was me a few years back.

My wife switched this year after only ever using Windows and pure dotnet dev.

The first thing she said was "how is it so fast"

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Which distribution is she using, out of curiosity? I wonder if I could do this for (to) my wife..

I helped her get started with endeavourOS.

She has me for tech support though and she’s a dev which helps.

I would go with popOS or Ubuntu if the tech support isn’t an option.

Wife is not technical at all. Put her on Ubuntu when she freaked out about her windows 7 PC updating automatically to windows 10. She been on it ever since.

Not OP, but if I was installing Linux for the first time I'd either go with pop_os (not sure if it's as good anymore as last time I checked it, a couples years ago) or kubuntu, because KDE is a bit more familiar to windows users.

Pop and Linux Mint are both solid options for newcomers. Personally, I think LM looks better out of the box but Pop is a little easier to grok coming from Windows. Not much of a difference either way though.

Totally agree for non-technical users. For anyone technical, and willing to suffer a little bit, go with Arch. The docs are incredible, and you end up with a much better understanding of how everything hangs together.

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