Yeah I installed that one you’re thinking of.

  • rodneylives@lemmy.world
    11·
    7 天前

    If you’re new to Linux: Mint. Use Mint, with Cinnamon. Or MATE, if you’re hardware is older. It works just how you’d expect.

    There’s many other distros for other purposes. Bazzite has a lot of people who like it for games. If you really want to control EVERYTHING about your machine there’s Arch. If you want bleeding edge software and don’t mind/can fix the occasional problem caused by rolling releases then I suggest Manjaro.

    But most Windows refugees will be looking for something familiar that works and stays out of their face, and for that the simple answer is Mint.

      • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 天前

        The hardest thing to installing linux is booting from usb. Windows makes you jump through hoops just to boot from usb. Rest is just clicking few buttons and waiting for few minutes.

      • aloofPenguin@lemmy.world
        3·
        7 天前

        From experience (this was a few years ago, but still holds up even today), yes. The GUI installer is very easy to use (there’s lots of visual stuff to). The one thing that the installer does better that the Debian installer, in my opinion, is partitioning (there’s more visual aids (a slider you can move around, I believe) (a disclaimer: this is basedoff of materials that i read online, not any personal experience)).

        If you want images and stuff, you can always look up ‘Calamares installer’ (which I believe is the installer Mint uses)

        Wish you the best of luck on your linux journey!

        E: disclaimer

  • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
    9·
    7 天前

    Shout out to the CachyOS crew. Their Discord is helpful. (Booooo, Discord, I know, I know.) They’re friendly and helpful.

    • nonius@lemmy.zip
      4·
      7 天前

      Can’t agree more. I posted about some strange performance issues last summer and Peter talked with me about it privately for a few hours until it was resolved. Ended up needing some kernel patches for my setup that went on to help with the next release

  • Klnsfw 🏳️‍🌈@lemmynsfw.com
    3·
    6 天前

    Any popular non-specialized version will be perfect.

    For a new user, the internal differences will be imperceptible, the same applications will be available, and community support will be there.

    If you can, install Virtual Box on your current operating system and test the distributions you are considering to see if there is one whose default interface you like best.

    I use Mint/Cinnamon.

  • rumba@lemmy.zipEnglish
    3·
    7 天前

    Anything that’s not Windows.

    My favorite is NixOS, but for the love of GOD do NOT try to install and use it. It’s like one of those puzzles you buy in a store, it makes you happy every time you solve it, but it pisses you off every time it breaks and you can’t figure out how to fit it.

  • BaraCoded@literature.cafe
    2·
    7 天前

    If you’re new to linux, I would recommend something that would work out of the box and which would be user-friendly, like Bazzite (gaming oriented) or Manjaro (User-friendly arch-based distro, with GUI for app management, drivers management etc). Lots of people will recommend Linux Mint and that is not a bad entry point as well.

    Note that linux works generally better with AMD GPUs, but Nvidia hardware is coming around more and more.

  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyzEnglish
    1·
    6 天前

    I’m using openSUSE Tumbleweed with Gnome as of now, but plan on switching to Fedora on my next laptop. I would continue using Tumbleweed if it were not for that every 5 system updates (zypper dup) or so Konsole and some 20 other related k-packages gets automatically installed for some reason. This started happening like 1 year ago and the only solutions I were able to find were just to keep removing (zypper rm -u) it every time or just lock (zypper addlock) it.

  • lmd2501@lemmy.zip
    1·
    7 天前

    Currently loving Ultramarine on my laptop and Chromebook/Chrultrabook. Use Bazzite on the gaming PC.

  • slothrop@lemmy.caEnglish
    1291·
    8 天前

    I dual boot Arch and Arch, and I run an Arch hypervisor as well as an Arch vm in each Arch instance.