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Which distro do you recommend?

by glasss 4y ago

monetus 4y ago
Not the op, but having done this a few times now, I've had the best success with manjaro - I've seen others say elementary is best, but I have hesitations
- jonas-w 4y ago
  Just leaving my two cents here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33173531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33173531 (Elementary is based on Ubuntu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32503090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32503090 I wouldn't recommend manjaro nor elementary. If you want some of the ArchLinux experience (like Manjaro promises) try EndeavourOS or Garuda Linux. (Have tried them both and didn't hear much negative things about them) If you just want to get going with linux without much hassle and just want to explore everything i'd recommend linux mint (it is also based on ubuntu but only inherits the good stuff and for example doesn't use snaps). It has many tools that help you if you don't want to do everything in the terminal (although i'd recommend to get warm with the terminal). And IMO it just has a good out of the box eperience. (Haven't used it myself but have set it up for some non tech people who were only familiar with windows or macos and they learned to use it relatively fast) I personally use plain Archlinux and wouldn't want to trade it for something else, but the pure archlinux experience may not be what you want and is definitely not for everyone.
  - monetus 4y ago
    I was a big fan of Antergos before Endeavour began, and am curious how that has developed since. I didn't know that the pine64 ecosystem was so tilted, and frankly, so dumbly self-interested. I'm guessing they've seen the criticism; we'll have to see how well the manjaro team gets along. The "set it and forget it", "everything should be available in a GUI", distro is needed imo. Sad elementary had such a mess, organizational... problems abound. Thanks for the mint clarification, I wasn't sure what delineated that os outside of the aesthetic. I am most comfortable with Debian myself, but getting new audio software to work sometimes just brings the whole house of cards down- at least more easily than arch. Pipewire has been a breeze on arch by comparison, but I've only played with manjaro lately. I'll give the real thing a try on my raspberry pi with xfce, and try garuda too on something. Thanks again for the 2¢
heresie-dabord 4y ago
If I may suggest... "Mint" has been a top-rated distro for its usability for a long time. Have a look at the top 10 here: https://distrowatch.com/ https://distrowatch.com/ I would not recommend any "rolling release" distro for a new Linux user. ChromeOS is usable but it is of course tightly coupled to Chromebooks and the Googosphere. Still, the user can add Debian Linux easily and then Firefox is one command away.
fsflover 4y ago
Debian, the rock-solid, with automatic security updates, without the interface updates.
timbit42 4y ago
Linux Mint

Which distro do you recommend?

by glasss 4y ago

Which distro do you recommend?

Not the op, but having done this a few times now, I've had the best success with manjaro - I've seen others say elementary is best, but I have hesitations

jonas-w 4y ago
Just leaving my two cents here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30776698 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33173531 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33173531 (Elementary is based on Ubuntu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30611748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32503090 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32503090 I wouldn't recommend manjaro nor elementary. If you want some of the ArchLinux experience (like Manjaro promises) try EndeavourOS or Garuda Linux. (Have tried them both and didn't hear much negative things about them) If you just want to get going with linux without much hassle and just want to explore everything i'd recommend linux mint (it is also based on ubuntu but only inherits the good stuff and for example doesn't use snaps). It has many tools that help you if you don't want to do everything in the terminal (although i'd recommend to get warm with the terminal). And IMO it just has a good out of the box eperience. (Haven't used it myself but have set it up for some non tech people who were only familiar with windows or macos and they learned to use it relatively fast) I personally use plain Archlinux and wouldn't want to trade it for something else, but the pure archlinux experience may not be what you want and is definitely not for everyone.
- monetus 4y ago
  I was a big fan of Antergos before Endeavour began, and am curious how that has developed since. I didn't know that the pine64 ecosystem was so tilted, and frankly, so dumbly self-interested. I'm guessing they've seen the criticism; we'll have to see how well the manjaro team gets along. The "set it and forget it", "everything should be available in a GUI", distro is needed imo. Sad elementary had such a mess, organizational... problems abound. Thanks for the mint clarification, I wasn't sure what delineated that os outside of the aesthetic. I am most comfortable with Debian myself, but getting new audio software to work sometimes just brings the whole house of cards down- at least more easily than arch. Pipewire has been a breeze on arch by comparison, but I've only played with manjaro lately. I'll give the real thing a try on my raspberry pi with xfce, and try garuda too on something. Thanks again for the 2¢

heresie-dabord 4y ago

If I may suggest... "Mint" has been a top-rated distro for its usability for a long time. Have a look at the top 10 here: https://distrowatch.com/ https://distrowatch.com/ I would not recommend any "rolling release" distro for a new Linux user. ChromeOS is usable but it is of course tightly coupled to Chromebooks and the Googosphere. Still, the user can add Debian Linux easily and then Firefox is one command away.

fsflover 4y ago

Debian, the rock-solid, with automatic security updates, without the interface updates.

timbit42 4y ago

Linux Mint