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I agree with Linux Mint. It is the only distro I can just honestly recommend people. If I install it on someone's computer, I have less maintenance head ache. D
by unsungNovelty 3y ago
I agree with Linux Mint. It is the only distro I can just honestly recommend people. If I install it on someone's computer, I have less maintenance head ache. Down the line, if they wanna move on to something, this provides a great playground as well.
But I don't recommend Ubuntu or ChromeOS for people. Ubuntu break a lot and with snap, it is more resource hungry.
And The whole point is moot if you're going to replace Microsoft Windows with Google's ChromeOS. Why are you moving to Linux in the first place? If you are doing it for tech, then this list is not for you anyways. You should be able to navigate without it.
For people looking for more than just recommendations, I have written a distro recommendation framework. It's a brain dump of all the info I have accumulated over the last decade using Linux. This way you can make a better choice if you didn't like my picks - https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/01/2024/a-linux-distro-recommendation-framework-and-my-picks-for-2024/ https://www.unsungnovelty.org/posts/01/2024/a-linux-distro-r...
- retrochameleon 3y agoThere was some really useful in your post. Thanks. For Arch, I highly recommend EndeavourOS as my experience with it has been excellent, it comes with minimal but practical and robust configuration out of the box, and the community has been great as well.
- unsungNovelty 3y agoI have only heard good things about EndeavourOS. So far. So do use it. But since I haven't used it at all, I can't recommend it. :) Also, I was burned by Manjaro which I used for several years, I rather use the Arch Linux directly than EndeavourOS. EndeavourOS is an abstraction which adds possible bugs. But I do think if you're new to the way of Arch, EndeavourOS is a good playground.