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HI there

I've been wondering about trying out Linux for a long time. I actually had it installed before, but did not really get into it, or understood it as I should have. So my question is, when beginning with Linux, which distro would be the best to use.

Any help and advice would be much appreciated.
 
Ubuntu is a pretty easy one to get into, with a lot of documentation and Youtube video tutorials and whatnot.
 
Arch... Just being an ass. :D

I find Ubuntu had tons of information when I was chopping and changing linux vm's a few years back. People seem to really like Manjaro and other flavours recently.


I like Anthony's linux videos.
 
Agreed. Ubuntu is a good place to start mainly because of the huge amount of support available. You can always move to other distros from there but my opinion is that it’s a solid platform that will allow you to learn just about everything you need to know about Linux.

Here’s an article I wrote a while back about migrating to Ubuntu. Maybe it will help you a bit:

 
Ubuntu is a pretty easy one to get into, with a lot of documentation and Youtube video tutorials and whatnot.
Pretty much any of the ubuntu branches are very easy to get into.
We use Kubuntu because it's basically Ubuntu, but more lightweight for DB servers.
Basically runs on a calculator...

UI isn't too unintuitive, and if you are looking at it for a desktop gaming setup I believe Wine has come quite a long way in being able to emulate quite a few if not most desktop games (likely with the exception of DX11 and 12 only titles for now)
 
Also been looking at it recently, booted VM of Manjaro & Debian, next is Ubuntu & RHEL are the most popular if I'm not mistaken?

Manjaro felt better than Debian but this is literally interacting with the first 5 minutes of being in a Distro just poking around. I have no real experience in the actual feature set & functionality
 
Guys thank you so very much, I really appreciate the help. I will surely give it a shot. And yes I will also run WIndows 11 when released even though I had it already installed and running on my setup.
 
Ubuntu for sure. Starting out, the LTS is always safest as usually the desktop editions can have some issues that still need to be ironed out

PS. synaptic package manager will make life a lot easier until you get to grips with the terminal. It's like a GUI for installing apps and stuff
 
For a Windows user with very little/none exposure to the Linux culture the two Distros that are touted are Linux Mint (Mate is my preference - very windows looking) and Zorin OS (comes with a very windows like desktop); both will be comfortable for a newly immigrated Windows user.

My first try of linux was Ubuntu years ago so being used to their ways Mint is the distro of choice.
 
My suggestions are Mint Cinnamon, Pop and Ubuntu.

RHEL is basically dead it seems due to Oracle screwing up the licensing agreement, though Rocky and Alma seemed to have taken over. It's a pity since Centos and RHEL were a very stable and staple of many communities.
 
I’ve got 2 POP! OS installs at the moment. Borked the one with a bad kernel installation.

I basically wish Linux was the default majority os used by everyone.

It rocks.
 
LM does what Ubuntu should have done and Ubuntu does what Debian should have done, Cinnamon is the flashiest DE, Mate is the most stable DE, the others versions of Mate lite.

Manjaro is magnificent but not all it promises to be and infamous for randomly totally breaking.

SUSE is extremely ambitious but never delivers on it's promises.... and is infuriating.

Fedora is OK but it suffers from a lack of attention to RHEL which mostly flows to Debian.

RHEL in general is only useful in enterprise settings, Debian is better for PC's and Arch is for the masochistic control freak.
 
For documentation (even when using Ubuntu) Debian is really good.
 

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