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    Machine is a HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-eu1xxx with the touch screen. Ryzen 7 5825U, touch screen 16gb RAM.

    Top recommendation of within one hour of me posting this decides what distro I install. Please not Hannah Montana linux or even worse, Arch.

    I leave the decision up to you.

    Edit:

    The winner was linux mint. I've downloaded the ISO and am installing now. I hope my boss doesn't get pissed.

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    [–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    NixOS or Debian. Don't install Ubuntu or Arch on your work computer.

    [–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Legit question - why not Ubuntu?

    [–] GarlicToast@programming.dev 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Ubuntu is really buggy. Including bug reports that has a simple fix and stay open for years.

    Just look how they handled Graphviz

    https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphviz/+bug/1409280

    They somehow manage to break packages that just work everywhere else.

    On top of that they add shity homemade solutions such as snap cus they have to reinvent the wheel. They than discard them a few years later and use proper solution created by more capable people (upstart lol).

    [–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Interesting, good to know. I'm not quite there yet, but my next build will 100% run linux, I just haven't decided on the distro yet. Thanks for the info!

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Not sure how much experience you have with Linux but if you know the basics (and perhaps a little more depending on your definition) I personally would recommend EndeavourOS. I have fedora on my laptop but I'm not that happy with it, while EndeavourOS on my desktop is running nicely. I use i3 but am switching over to hyprland though I have to do that manually. The installer has a lot of options for wms and other packages though which is why I like it. It also has some GUIs for updating the arch mirrors and everything else you might need to do the first time you run it.

    [–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    I'm not going in totally blind - I have experience with using linux on the server side. I've just never used it for a personal desktop environment.

    [–] Ziglin@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

    Then it might be nice to start off with whatever distro you were using so you're familiar with the package manager and then just get yourself a DE/WM (or Wayland compositor but I think Wayland isn't quite far enough to start off with yet although I've only used Hyprland) that you'll be happy with. Then when you've gotten used to everything it's much easier to try out new stuff.

    [–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago

    Too many issues. Everything from snap to lack of proper testing