[nguoi]

>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.

[caiocaiocaio]

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.

[donapieppo]

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

[nguoi]

It's no more difficult than installing any other program