Bruh, first of all, you don’t have to if you don’t want to. Second, It seems like you haven’t tried the different distributions available. Most of them gear their UX towards “non-techies”. Most coders out there are best friends with the terminal anyway. UX is usually not that big a contributing factor when it comes to choice. To add on that, most non-techies still end up customizing their windows and mac machines to feel more comfortable by using downloadable themes. That is a choice within Linux as well

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