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Linux distro recommendation
| freeBSD
| >>1059839 Good idea actually! But I have never used BSD before so I'm not sure if that's the right choice for me for this laptop. (I want to do my uni work on it (CS), which I currently do on Fedora) Can you tell me what you like about freeBSD?
| Windows LTSC
| btw
| >>52945d
Linux Mint is the most easily accessible since it has easy graphic interfaces for most daily uses. Also has a large community ready to help new users as well that I recommend you take a look at.
However, here are some other distros you may wish to try if you feel like doing so (wouldn't recommend unless you want to dedicate the time to learn).
| >>52945d
>>b5779c
> Debian
You can have a debloated version of linux mint if you remove packages during the install. Less user friendly.
> Fedora
If you want more up to date features, while still retaining user friendly experience, this is not a bad option as well.
> Arch
Very customizable, you install all packages you need outside the bare minimum. Most up to date in terms of software. Not recommended for most.
> Gentoo
Arch but you compile everything.
| debian for hte lesbians, unless you want linux end game, then gentoo
| Debian KDE X11
It JUST works
| NixOS
| >>1059881 Not sure about Mint tbh, always had a strange vibe to me. Never daily driven it though. (So far I've daily driven Arch (btw), openSUSE, and Fedora)
>>b5779c also, thanks for the big overview. I feel like I'm wishing for a major distro that is not one of the existing ones and therefore it doesn't exist. Perhaps I should just call it a day and install openSUSE again, I've been on Fedora for too many years now.
| >>1059892 >>1059898 Hmm... just because it ends with 'bian?
>>1059899 tried GuixSD and NixOS a few years ago but my brain was too small.
| arch btw if you manage to find it
| >>209a12
I found it a bit too bloated, on top of it just feeling off for me personally, which is why I've mained Fedora for the longest. I'm planning on jumping to Arch or perhaps Nix (heard it was good but idk well enough why).
What are you looking for in a distro that makes you say what you said at the end?
| >>1059956 What did I say at the end? I've also mained Fedora for the longest, but it's getting stale, it works but, idk. I just want something fresh. I think it's healty for the brain to switch things up once in a while.
| Big fan of openSUSE tumbleweed, or slow roll
It's a rolling release distro but also has QA and if something breaks it's usually caught before being pushed to the users, and the times it's not it comes with snapper and btrfs snapshots setup so you can just rollback to the snapshot before the update from grub and wait until it's fixed
| >>1059816
Debian, Arch linux, Void linux, Source mage, DragonflyBSD.
In first one use unstable version next after stable (to get close to actual version of modern softwares, Trixie as I remember).
Second is very good, have a lot of softwares, but it have frequently updates.
Third is alike previous, but use runit as initial subsystem, no so frequent updates, a lot of python, lua and wayland. Grrr!
Forth - Hot want try it! Shell (bash) everywhere!
Fifth - this I want from BSD-series.
| I dual boot, using Fedora as the main OS, and a debloated windows tiny 11 for things only compatible with windows
| EndeavourOS, it's basically a simplified arch.
| bloated arch*
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| I'm getting another laptop and I want to try a different distro on it. Which distros do you use? What do you like about it? Do you recommend it to others?