Hey all, I’ve been thinking about making the jump from Windows to Linux as my daily-driver and I’ve been struggling on what distro to use.

On my laptop I’ve been using Fedora’s KDE Spin for a bit but I can’t say I really like KDE all that much. I took that Distrochooser test and 9/10 of the suggestions were all Ubuntu-based or Arch-based for some reason lol.

I would prefer a distro that “just works” but I’m not scared of having to troubleshoot or fix things. I guess I’m just looking to see what everyone else uses and what you all recommend. Thanks!

  • geoma
    4·
    10 months ago

    MX Linux, Linux Mint, Endeavour OS

    • prole@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      I second EndeavourOS. My first distro and it’s been a great experience. I’ve felt no desire to switch.

      Steam/games have worked great.

      • geoma
        2·
        10 months ago

        Yeah but its a rolling release distro so I wouldn’t recommend it to a user that is not conscious of updating the system regularly

        • prole@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          9 months ago

          Fair enough… It’s been nearly a month since I commented here so I don’t remember the exact situation, but if having a lot of updates was an issue, then yeah maybe not EndeavourOS. There may be LTS versions, but since it’s based on Arch, I’m not sure. I personally don’t mind it, and have yet to have a single issue with an update “breaking” something (though I have Timeshift set up to take a snapshot before updating just in case), but I guess

          I could see someone being annoyed by having the little thing pop-up to tell you how many things you could update, but I kind of like it I think. It kinda feels like I’m very slowly, incrementally, making my laptop better, albeit usually in ways I can’t even perceive at the time.

          But hey, everyone has their preferences. That’s why there’s a billion distros to choose from.