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[-] notnotmike@programming.dev 35 points 7 months ago

In the spirit of these kinds of changes, I'd love to hear some honest Linux distribution recommendations. I'm leaning towards Ubuntu because it is the most widely advertised and UX focused from my perspective. But I've also heard good things about Arch. Any others I should be considering?

I'll probably not go full Linux any time soon - I want at least one Windows OS to play games on - so whatever option it should be dual-boot friendly.

[-] TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee 59 points 7 months ago

You’ve heard good things about arch solely because you’re on Lemmy. Using arch means you’ll be dedicating about 50% of your working time towards tinkering and making it fucking work, which is fun don’t get me wrong- unless you have actual work to do.

Ubuntu is solid but a little sluggish, I’m personally an advocate for Mint as far as something you can drop a windows users in and they’ll generally figure it out.

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

I don’t get this. For each of my devices running arch, the only tinkering I’ve encountered were for nitpicky customizations I wanted, which I have to do on another distro. After the arch installation completes it’s given me a fully functional desktop

[-] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works -2 points 7 months ago

if you don't install the wrong packages or skip a step in the installation lmao

[-] tophneal@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 months ago

🤦‍♂️ of course! I forgot to install it wrong lol

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