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For a first distro, Ubuntu is probably a good idea. Fedora later maybe. Arch or LinuxFromScratch is a good learning experience too.

• Lerc 2y ago
  I'm not sure if I would recommend Ubuntu anymore. Currently typing from an Ubuntu laptop. I doubt my next one will be Ubuntu. I have found the snap user experience to be quite poor. Popups telling me I need to upgrade. The most annoying being Firefox, where it wants me to to not be running Firefox to upgrade, but fails to notice on reboot that now would be a good time to do that. Consequently even after multiple reboots it persists on the old version and complains about it. I have the option of manually triggering the snap upgrade when I reboot, or to close everything and either manually trigger or leave the laptop not running anything in the hope will decide to update. Am now fetching Firefox from packages.mozilla.org which helps that aspect a lot, but I'd rather not have to go through fixing the user experience each time I install. Also, upgrade messages that seem to imply that there are security fixes being withheld because you do not have Ubuntu Pro are noxious.
  • dorfsmay 2y ago
    Snaps is what made me move away from Ubintu to Fedora. Make sure you add RPM Fusion repos and enjoy plain GNOME and latest everything.
  • replete 2y ago
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  • replete 2y ago
    I don't like Ubuntu either, and also ended up on Fedora. I don't know anyone who ever stuck with their first Linux distro and still think Ubuntu first is a sensible first distro recommendation for a web developer who hasn't used Linux before, for many reasons.