Hey all, I’ve been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I’ve been struggling on what distro to use.

On my laptop I’ve been using Fedora’s KDE Spin for a bit but I can’t say I really like KDE all that much. I took that Distrochooser test and 9/10 of the suggestions were all Ubuntu-based or Arch-based for some reason lol.

I would prefer a distro that “just works” but I’m not scared of having to troubleshoot or fix things. I guess I’m just looking to see what everyone else uses and what you all recommend. Thanks!

  • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
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    5 months ago

    Imo Mint is the gold standard for a Distro that just works and meets the needs of most people.

      • Tippon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        What would you suggest is a better distro for a new Linux user? I’ve found Mint to be great out of the box, and only needs minor tweaks if you want the Microsoft fonts, for example.

      • SavvyWolf@pawb.socialEnglish
        5·
        5 months ago

        I mean, just in general.

        Besides Fedora (maybe) I’m not sure other non-deb distros really are recommended for new users.

        Besides that, like it or not, nowadays most software is distributed as deb files (until Flatpak fixes it). Using something not debian based requires learning how to port .deb files or use manual dependency resolution for tarballs.