Yeah I installed that one you’re thinking of.

  • da Tweaker@feddit.org
    1·
    26 minutes ago

    Gentoo, if you have time you can mold it into whatever you need. And if you do it right its rock solid. And if you dont have a shit ton of time use debian, its reliable, fast, and has a ton of support articles.

  • observes_depths@aussie.zone
    1·
    2 hours ago

    Pop OS. I don’t even like Mac OS but Pop just feels so good! I’ve used it on 3 different computers now without problems. Ubuntu tutorials usually work if you need to tweak something. Only downside is it’s a private company, but it’s released free and is well supported.

  • FauxLiving@lemmy.world
    11·
    6 hours ago

    According to a survey of the Linux community, the best distro is always not the one that you picked.

  • flemtone@lemmy.world
    4·
    5 hours ago

    Start out with Linux Mint, it’s a debian/ubuntu based distro which has massive support online and is less likely to break during an update, then when you get use to using linux you can make a more personal decision for which distro suits you best.

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      4·
      4 hours ago

      less likely to break during an update

      In my experience, Ubuntu and Debian are by far the most likely to break during an upgrade

        • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          20 minutes ago

          Upgrading, like from Debian 12 to 13. It’s too complex, and if you install anything out of the ordinary (which you have to if you want packages from this decade), things get even more complicated.

          I’ve used the same Arch installation for 14 years and only had issues when we switched to from sysvinit to systemd in 2012 because I didn’t read the news. Easily fixable though

        • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          19 minutes ago

          Apt is one of the worst package managers I’ve used. Yum is also trash, dnf a bit better. But pacman is by far the best

  • JOMusic@lemmy.mlEnglish
    4·
    5 hours ago

    I recently switched from Linux Mint to Ubuntu Studio. Both are fantastic and intuitive. Ubuntu Studio just has more of the Linux audio configuration worked out by default.

  • littletranspunk@lemmus.orgEnglish
    6·
    5 hours ago

    I have used quite a few, but my longest used ones, in order, are ZorinOS, Linux Mint, KDE Neon, and now Bazzite.

    I’d only shoot recommendations once I hear your use case, experience, and willingness to learn

    • ThisLucidLens@lemmy.world
      4·
      4 hours ago

      Surprised I had to scroll so far to see ZorinOS mentioned. I love it, and it’s pretty user friendly for people new to Linux

  • k0e3@lemmy.ca
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I switched to Linux last year and in comfortably settled into Arch and now I’m to interested in it to try other distros even though I’m very curious to try…

    • Ricaz@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      7·
      4 hours ago

      It’s super easy to start a VM to try.

      Just install qemu (and optionally enable KVM), then to run eg. Ubuntu installer:

      qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -enable-kvm \
  -m 2G \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 2 \
  -cdrom /path/to/ubuntu-24.04-desktop-amd64.iso \
  -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
  -boot d \
  -vga virtio \
  -display gtk

      After you install it, run the VM:

      qemu-system-x86_64 \
  -enable-kvm \
  -m 2G \
  -cpu host \
  -smp 2 \
  -hda ubuntu-disk.qcow2 \
  -boot c \
  -vga virtio \
  -display gtk

      Or use libvirt, like a layer on top to make things much simpler. I use virt-manager for GUI and virsh on command line.