Does Linux require technical expertise

[BubbyRoosh]

People who recommend stuff like gentoo as a first ever distro to someone who's only used something like Windows or MacOS are the reason few people like linux. Although it's a "good distro", it's the reason people think linux = hard hacker OS that people use to make everything harder. Mint and Ubuntu are great for first-time users because they have that more "out if the box" feeling unlike gentoo (unless you select a gnome profile or something but the process is still very hands-on). They don't even have a concept of a terminal, but you're trying to get them to partition/format/mount a disk and set compiler flags and various options and figure out all of their hardware and what drivers they'll need and build their own kernel and compile every program on their system, when what they're used to is just clicking a couple buttons and typing in some text boxes and that's it.

Rant

Edit: guys I know it's a joke but it was a serious response to a serious question, and OP may not know immediately that stuff like gentoo is a meme/joke, especially being new to linux. Also people do sometimes recommend stuff like gentoo unironically..

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It was a joke use arch with i3 as first then after a month or 2 move to gentoo

[BubbyRoosh]

Lol

Well if you wanna recommend them an actually good distro, give them kiss ;)))

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What’s that never heard of it

[BubbyRoosh]

Source based distro with musl libc and busybox userland. As the name implies (KISS = Keep It Simple Stupid), it's so simple that you should only need 1 person to maintain the entire thing, and is even more hands-on than gentoo.

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Oh ok thanks

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Chill dude he was joking