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Any distro I should use?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

update: currently testing mini cinnamon on a VM at the moment

Looks pretty good, tho I haven't really gotten in the setup yet (really close tho!)

https://files.catbox.moe/twr0yl.png (image link dw)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Pop_OS. Everything just works great out of the box.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I started with Zoro which is a windows look alike, tried mint and a few other distros but ultimately landed on Fedora.

Fedora has been great and I haven't been tempted to leave since trying it out a few years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly, I recommend everyone without existing Linux experience to use Fedora: it's reasonable modern (nice for, e.g. gaming), while also not being a full rolling release model like Arch (which needs expertise to fix in case something breaks). It's also reasonably popular, meaning you will find enough guidance in case something does break.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I use Nobara which comes with drivers for Nvidia and stuff just works. It's very noob friendly.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I had several drives in my PC, so I wiped a small one and just installed a few different distros and figured out what I liked. I ended up sticking with nobara with KDE.

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