hi,

I have had to use windows for a long time because of school (word and excel, the ms version, was like mandatory, tho free), and I have been interested in trying or at least learning linux more.

I tried once before on Manjaro but I messed up the install and I was having annoying issues with the graphics drivers with an nvidia card (having to manually change the settings for two monitors and the refresh rate every time i rebooted, for instance). That was around 4 years ago now though.

My main question was what distro I should try? I am fairly experienced so I know my way around things but not in linux, and I am okay with learning curves.

It seems like everyone has a different answer for this so I wanted to hear suggestions. Thank you

  • Draconic NEO
    4•1 year ago

    Really depends on what you’re looking to do, if you are looking to try out new things and experiment I would recommend trying out Arch or Fedora. Those are good for testing and trying out stuff, if you’re looking for a stable desktop I would recommend Pop!_OS (what I’m using on my machine), Linux Mint, Debian testing, or Debian 12.

    I would recommend staying away from Manjaro in the future because of their management and repository issues. I also wouldn’t really recommend Ubuntu because when I used it, it was very unstable and had a lot of issues (mainly because of Snap) which ended up rendering the OS unbootable and I had to reinstall.