Thx in advice.
ElementaryOS if yer a Mac fan.
I would say yes to this, but elementaryOS still doesn’t have in-place upgrades to the next major versions. I recall there being some progress on changing that, but I would wait till elementaryOS 8 before really recommending it.
Fedora
Just make sure to install the 3rd party nonfree media codecs at installation for video to work out if the box. Also recently released Nvidia GPUs might have some bugs with Wayland ime
Mint, it’s not the shiniest toy but it really does just work
Ubuntu and its derivatives are quite solid. My favorite ispopOsS which has grown to have a nice identity for itself.
Linux Mint definitely
Do live images not exist anymore? Pick a distro, burn an iso to a USB drive and boot it. See if you like it.
You’re just going to get a bunch of personal preferences with such an open ended question.
And for 100% of distros someone will come and say: “except for this where you gotta do this and that but then it works fine”.
That’s the problem I’m looking for something it just works, stable WO errors with updates and simple, just to get things done and not messing entire weeks fixing and searching solutions online for something what didn’t work correctly.
That’s just the nature of linux though. Most common distros run without issue. But people have such a wide variety of hardware and software needs that someone somewhere will tell you they had issues with that distro.
Much easier to boot them and get a feel for the one you like, you are not likely to have an issue, and if you do it will take minutes to fix on a common distro.
try a ublue os image
Kinoite or mx linux
I think your best bet for this is one of the spinoffs of enterprise Linux: fedora or openSUSE. both are very solid ootb, and have starting configurations that are generally good.
The microos or silverblue variants respectively are really promising as well, but still have some caveats.
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Is that so? I can remember a option on install to download proprietary stuff. I think that means codecs?
I am not saying that you are wrong just asking if you are sure.
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I’ve used both, and the only third party repo I’ve enabled was tailscale. I’ve not had any issue with needing codecs in anything I’ve Installed through the discover app. I’ll admit that I don’t have an Nvidia card, so I don’t know how good support is ootb there (though iirc, at least openSUSE has a separate installer that include Nvidia drivers)
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Sure, but in both cases it installs the flatpak version that distributes the codecs with the runtime.
Although, now that I say this, I did install the flathub repo on fedora, which does slightly undermine my point
Linux Mint Cinnamon
Linux mint cinnamon simplex users unite!
I love how simple it is to install and use.
I really wanted to like Mint cinnamon but it didn’t like my dual screen+built in screen on my pc case.
It would try and smush the display for the pc case screen into the monitor displays pushing everything over and making mouse clicks widely inaccurate (the click was half a screens away from the actual cursor).
Only ever had that issue on Mint
Zorin
They probably want updates
New Zorin just came out. And when people say OOTB and no hassles they imply they don’t want to deal with a rapid release distro.
Ubuntu
I got annoyed with snaps, I can’t recommend it because removing snaps is that opposite of not having to mess with it out of the box
This doesn’t make sense to me. I have Ubuntu installed on a machine and have never even touched snaps. I did not have to do anything out of the box to not use snaps.
I installed Firefox and it installed the snap version. Then I had to do a bunch of pinning and other stupid steps to make it NOT do that
A person new to Linux would probably not even care or notice it.
It’s a proprietary component run on only Ubuntu servers. Someone switching to Linux surely has REASONS to use Linux, like supporting open source
Linux Mint is basically Ubuntu without snaps. Flatpak is available for that sort of thing where necessary.
That’s why I upvoted Mint, it’s an excellent choice as a first Linux. My mom used it without much Linux knowledge
Then don’t remove snaps and you don’t have to mess with anything out of the box.
Then you are stuck with snaps. I at least want to use apt
you just described zorin.
Surprised it’s not being suggested more here
Im not sure but I have a suscpicion linux folks don’t like its thing about being windows like as possible. Personally anything to get folks to uptake foss is great in my book. I actually use portable apps and would like to get farther away from it. Im going to look into the q40s thing suggested here as that might be a perfect next step.
Because it’s unimaginably slow on updates
Pop os or Mint
Nobara if you want to game or do AV editing. I’m a semi-noob and I did not like Mint.
Nobara is highly hacked together and not well maintained. It is a cool proof of concept but should not be used for daily usage.
Lol, but why? I use it for my daily usage! I game, surf the web, edit videos in Da Vinci and do a lot (a whole lot) of audio work on Reaper. It has been updated following the Fedora cycle and you easily switch from Gnome to KDE. If you go to the Discord you’ll see it is actually well maintained. Having tried a few distros, I settle for Nobara because it’s basically Fedora with all AV codecs and drivers pre-installed, exactly what I wanted. You may not like it personally but I don’t think it’s right to say it doesn’t work for daily usage.
Yeah for sure you can do that, but it is not secure.
Updates are extremely delayed and not CI/CD like for example ublue Bazzite.
It has disabled SELinux.
It uses a custom Kernel and tons of other stuff.
Its for sure cool but the performance increase is like 5% (TheLinuxExperiment tested that once) and not worth the issues.
I would use Bazzite instead, you can layer stuff or different things, ublue has a Resolve Podman container afaik. Reaper has no Wayland support, does it? Last time I tested it at least, a few months ago.
Cool that their releases are good, my knowledge was from the 38-39 upgrade which came months too late. But tbh Discord is not a good way to document, ublue does the same though.
Got ya
Tried it, cannot recommend.
