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what distro to start? (pawb.social)

submitted 2 years ago by foxy@pawb.social to c/linuxfurs@pawb.social

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hi,

I have had to use windows for a long time because of school (word and excel, the ms version, was like mandatory, tho free), and I have been interested in trying or at least learning linux more.

I tried once before on Manjaro but I messed up the install and I was having annoying issues with the graphics drivers with an nvidia card (having to manually change the settings for two monitors and the refresh rate every time i rebooted, for instance). That was around 4 years ago now though.

My main question was what distro I should try? I am fairly experienced so I know my way around things but not in linux, and I am okay with learning curves.

It seems like everyone has a different answer for this so I wanted to hear suggestions. Thank you

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[–] herzenschein@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Stay with one of the big boys: Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, then you're golden. For NVIDIA users I guess I'd still recommend something Ubuntu based: Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Pop_OS!, etc because the drivers can be preinstalled.

On Fedora you need to install the NVIDIA drivers from rpmfusion, and on openSUSE you need an additional repo. It's an extra step, but otherwise I'd strongly recommend one of these two.

[–] Emmy@pawb.social 0 points 2 years ago

This actually makes me wonder if I made a mistake installing Arch for a machine of mine, or if I should go back to something like Debian. I know basic Linux knowledge but I don't know if I should stay with Arch.

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