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Speaking from experience, just do not try any fringe distro. Pick one of the top 3 popular ones - they are much better in little things that you will appreciate

• klodolph 6y ago
  It’s good advice but I’m not sure how you count “top 3 popular distros” these days. A lot of people into Linux seem to go through a phase where they try out a rolling release distro like Arch or Gentoo, and then after a couple years get sick of dealing with broken systems & switch to something more stable like Debian/Ubuntu/Fedora/Mint/etc. As I get older, the amount of system administration and customization of my system that I want to do is dropping rapidly. I barely even change the desktop wallpaper any more.
  • coolspot 6y ago
    Community size is good approximation and that is what drives features and your ability to find solution to a problem quckly. I would say top desktop distros (from most popular to least) are: Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, Mint. Anything outside of this list is for tinkers who are not easily frustrated with issues.
    • klodolph 6y ago
      Yes, and I’d say more than that—tinkers who are specifically interested in tinkering with Linux desktop administration. I’ll do a ridiculous amount of work on some hobby project, but if a system update breaks my WiFi adapter, then I’m tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with WiFi drivers, which sucks, when I really want to be tinkering around and facing frustrating issues with my hobby project, which is awesome. It’s like: https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/asfgcj/bad_screen/ https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/comments/asfgcj/bad_screen... Same reason I switched to AMD GPUs. Getting the Nvidia cards working on Linux is just a distraction from whatever I really want to do.