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In addition to the good distro options mentioned, there's also Debian Stable: https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-13.1.0-amd64-DV
by neilv 1y ago
In addition to the good distro options mentioned, there's also Debian Stable:
https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/debian-13.1.0-amd64-DVD-1.iso https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/amd64/iso-dvd/d...
There are several options for desktop environment, and you can select which ones to install when you boot that installer image (and also add/subtract more later, and change your preference at login time).
One of the nicest-looking ones that should be self-explanatory to use (for anyone who's used any version of Microsoft Windows since 95) is Cinnamon. Most of other desktop environments default to similar, except for the current default Gnome one, which is a bit more creative in a way that's not intuitive.
- amanzi 1y agoI use Debian Stable + Gnome as my main PC. I use a handful of native apps which are all available on Linux, and most other apps are web-based. I never used to like the Gnome desktop, but modern Gnome is fast, unbloated, and it gets out of your way.
- neilv 1y agoThe author spoke of migrating Windows users, so I suggested what would be familiar to them. The Cinnamon desktop will use a lot of that Gnome stuff, but things like a start menu and task bar will be more familiar than the corresponding elements of the default Gnome desktop.
- aitchnyu 1y agoWith my last PC, I was looking at Freedesktop issues and waiting for cutting edge software for a year to get complete support for my hardware. Hence Ubuntu and Fedora.
- chupasaurus 1y agoUbuntu is as good as Debian Sid for cutting edge (not really), PPAs work in both.