I used to say, if you are not a “computer person” at all, just pick Ubuntu. If you are a bit more demanding and don’t mentally freeze up in front of computers, yet still want a fairly normal and hassle-free experience, choose Fedora.
These days, I’m not so sure about Ubuntu anymore. They have been disappointing in the recent past.
Maybe I should give Linux Mint a try one of these days.
I’ve always preferred KDE, I tried mint and pop at one point, but wasn’t a fan of either cinnamon or cosmic. After that I ran through a bunch of KDE based distros and landed on Fedora as the one that had plasma 6, wayland, and worked well with my hardware. It’s been about 6 months now and aside from small hiccups it has worked well for me.
Kubuntu was an absolute disappointment, I agree that Canonical has lost the plot.
As the comic says, it depends. I was going to do DE or MATE for my old hardware, but figured out Cinnamon would run fine. But I knew better than to try Ubuntu. I use it on my main PC that can handle it, but older stuff, no way, it’s got too much going on.
I think (I may be wrong here) that Debian wild be good enough for beginners. Their stable branch is, well… stable, and i didn’t run into that many issues (I think it would only be when you want to run stuff that isn’t either a flatpak or in the repos, like i tried to do with howdy). Testing would also be good ,but expect a few issues.
I used to say, if you are not a “computer person” at all, just pick Ubuntu. If you are a bit more demanding and don’t mentally freeze up in front of computers, yet still want a fairly normal and hassle-free experience, choose Fedora.
These days, I’m not so sure about Ubuntu anymore. They have been disappointing in the recent past.
Maybe I should give Linux Mint a try one of these days.
I’ve always preferred KDE, I tried mint and pop at one point, but wasn’t a fan of either cinnamon or cosmic. After that I ran through a bunch of KDE based distros and landed on Fedora as the one that had plasma 6, wayland, and worked well with my hardware. It’s been about 6 months now and aside from small hiccups it has worked well for me.
Kubuntu was an absolute disappointment, I agree that Canonical has lost the plot.
Isn’t cosmic still in beta and still lacking important features?
Ubuntu has long lost their way. They’re no longer the go-to.
Linux Mint is safer bet.
Debian Edition, right?
…right? …
As the comic says, it depends. I was going to do DE or MATE for my old hardware, but figured out Cinnamon would run fine. But I knew better than to try Ubuntu. I use it on my main PC that can handle it, but older stuff, no way, it’s got too much going on.
MATE and Cinnamon are desktop environments, they could be used on either distro.
LMDE uses Debian for upstream instead of Ubuntu. If you have regular Linux Mint, it uses Ubuntu upstream
I think (I may be wrong here) that Debian wild be good enough for beginners. Their stable branch is, well… stable, and i didn’t run into that many issues (I think it would only be when you want to run stuff that isn’t either a flatpak or in the repos, like i tried to do with
howdy). Testing would also be good ,but expect a few issues.