First of all I apologize if this question has been asked before, it’s just a question that was on my mind and just wanted to know what everyone thought about this particular topic. I just thought I’d explain myself a bit on how my experience with Linux has been like so far and why I’m asking this.
I’m actually pretty much a Linux noob, I’ve only been using it for about 5 months now and I have to say I’m enjoying it quite a bit. First started out with Xubuntu now using Arch+XFCE. The reason I’m enjoying Linux is cause it really feels like you own the machine. It adapts to the user rather than the user adapting to it. Which was a frustration I’ve had with Windows 10.
So my question here is should Linux have a standard go to or default distro? Reason I’m asking this is cause a lot of people are only using Windows cause it just happens to be pre-installed on every laptop. With rare exceptions being Dell and Lenovo allowing you to opt to have Ubuntu instead of Windows. So I’m wondering if there was a standard Linux distro that all vendors would pre-install on their machines, would this increase the appeal of the OS and therefore maybe allow others to develop for the platform and maybe hopefully reduce fragmentation? And with the Librem 5 and hopefully more Linux based phones I wonder if there should be a standard go to distro design specifically for mobile phones.
Also just a little thing on the side here I’m wondering if Linux having a greater appeal would mean having to sacrifice certain aspects of its openness. I’m more thinking of how the average consumer is more used to running/installing programs from your typical EXE or DMG files rather than using the terminal.
These are just some questions. I’m sure it’s annoying seeing this from a noob but I really needed to ask this. Looking forward to your responses!
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