I’m moving away from Windows and I’m looking for distro for coding and occasional gaming. If more context is needed please let me know.
Hannah Montana Linux.
Unless you want to f around just install Ubuntu and be done with it
- an arch user btw
Ubuntu or Mint (Ubuntu based) are the clear winners, I see recently a mild return to Fedora and OpenSuse but I wouldn’t start with them
Why not? I’ve been using nobara KDE (fedora based) for the past weeks now (just a few weeks of pop os before) and I’m perfectly happy.
Well fedora isn’t really a beginner friendly distro. The community is much smaller, and there is a lot more outdated or bad advice circulating when searching an issue.
When I installed fedora on my laptop some months ago, I wanted to switch the ffmpeg install and get codecs installed. Even fedora’s documentation was outdated.
Only by searching and digging in some websites I found a command I had to do to make it world, in order to switch the ffmpeg version away from the open fedora version…
Fedora, OpenSUSE, Ubuntu are all good for beginners.
As long as it’s tumbleweed.
Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use
Non rolling release distros are completely inappropriate for desktop use
Why exactly? Because you need to manually upgrade to newer versions?
Yes. It makes sense on production servers because you have staging envs to test upgrades. All it does on a desktop is make you use old versions of tools until one day you have a massive update to new old versions of tools, which is way more likely to break shit than doing small, consistent upgrades
