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I've loved ubuntu for a while as well, but snaps are making me want something new - any suggestions for a "I'm middle aged with children so I need an it just wo
by shinjitsu 4y ago
I've loved ubuntu for a while as well, but snaps are making me want something new - any suggestions for a "I'm middle aged with children so I need an it just works distro"?
- nehal3m 4y agoI was in the same boat and switched to Fedora 6 months ago on desktop and laptop, the Cinnamon spin. It gets out of the way and up until now has just worked. No hardware issues except for the fingerprint reader.
- mikae1 4y ago> any suggestions for a "I'm middle aged with children so I need an it just works distro"? The latest and greatest recommendation is now openSUSE Tumbleweed (rolling yet stable). Fedora was the recommendation of 2021. Manjaro was the recommendation of 2020. Try one and see if it works on your hardware. If not, pick the next one. :)
- jherskovic 4y agoPop_OS!, hands down. Ubuntu without the crud, with sensible UI choices. The Mac of Linuxii.
- jlkuester7 4y agoSeconded. I am also a fan of Linux Mint for very similar reasons. Ended up recently switching from Mint to Pop, though because I like modern Gnome more than Cinnamon (sue me). Mint was pretty much rock solid on my Dell XPS. It just worked. Pop has been a bit more exciting, but still a great distro!
- poulpy123 4y agoI recently discovered ZorinOS and while I didn't use it long enough to advise it strongly, I found their philosophy of proposing a simple system well integrated interesting