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A note! the desktop field is completely optional! You can install any other desktop you like, but the listed are the "main" ones, usually recommended by the distro.

Linux Mint

  • Country: Ireland ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Experience: Simple
  • Desktop: Cinnamon

Best distro for beginners. has two versions: One based off of ubuntu (default), and another one debian (recommended, LMDE)

https://www.linuxmint.com/

Ubuntu

  • Country: Britain ๐Ÿ‡ฌ๐Ÿ‡ง
  • Experience: Simple
  • Desktop: GNOME

Good distro, but has some controversies. Though it's the most popular beginners distro by far.

https://ubuntu.com/

EndeavourOS

  • Country: Netherlands ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

My second favorite :) Arch based, easy installer and updater, friendly community and beautiful themes. I recommend this distro if you are into arch based distros without wanting the painful part of it.

https://endeavouros.com/

OpenSUSE

  • Country: Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE

It's mainly built around using the GUI, with tools like yast. Uses KDE.

https://www.opensuse.org/

Manjaro

  • Country: Germany ๐Ÿ‡ฉ๐Ÿ‡ช / Austria ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ‡น / France๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

Added because of popular recommendation. I recommend EndeavourOS more, since manjaro has a... history.

https://manjaro.org/

NixOS

  • Country: Netherlands ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME

My personal favorite <3 Great for servers. It's not for the faint of heart, though hah. It's an immutable distro, where there is no package manager, or manually modifying config files; your entire system is created with .nix files, not commands. Reproducable.

https://nixos.org/

Arch

  • Country: Canada ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ฆ (Yes yes, it's not european but how can you not mention arch???)
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: None

Most popular distro for dedicated users, and for good reason; bleeding edge, full power over your system. Though you have to manually set up everything, from internet to your deskop environment.

Void

  • Country: Spain ๐Ÿ‡ช๐Ÿ‡ธ
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: XFCE

Great distro if you want something like arch, but without systemd or slightly more stable (Also, musl support). Obscure but amazing.

https://voidlinux.org/

Debian [Honorary mention]

  • Country: Global ๐ŸŒ
  • Experience: Intermediate
  • Desktop: KDE/GNOME/XFCE

An honorary mention. Isn't suited for everyone, but is the golden standard for servers, and the grandfather of a huge family tree of distros.

https://www.debian.org/

VanillaOS [Honorary mention]

  • Country: Global ๐ŸŒ๏ธ
  • Experience: Advanced
  • Desktop: GNOME

VanillaOS is a debian-based immutable operating system, which can install packages from any other distro and is very hard to brick.

https://vanillaos.org/

That should cover a lot. Please heed the desktop warning, and please correct me/comment suggestions. This is not perfect, so please do criticize where possible c:

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[โ€“] biofaust@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (9 children)

Is LMDE also the one that would be recommended for beginners or, as one, should I stick to the Ubuntu-based?

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[โ€“] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nooooooo I use elementary ๐Ÿ˜ญ

[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Never used elementary but always admired it. A shame :(

[โ€“] gruhuken@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The good thing about Linux is that you don't buy it

[โ€“] XTL@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You can, though. Or at least could. Buying media and books etc used to be a way to throw some money at a distributor and get something tangible in return. There's probably still some available. Alternatively, you can probably donate.

But a nice part of the first software freedom is that you don't need anyone's permission or license to run Free Software.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Free_Software_Definition

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[โ€“] plumpsklo@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

What about Zorin? I think it is one of the best to Show Windows users a Linux experience.

[โ€“] alexburlacu@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Would also mention (have not ...yet... tested it myself) PearOS, an Arch Linux flavor from Romania.

[โ€“] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can Debian not be added here? Linux Mint is based on Debian, and no company owns Debian.

[โ€“] fxomt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[โ€“] zaxvenz@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

edit: wrong info

[โ€“] Comtief@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

Some weeks ago Mint and GraphyOS seemed to be one of the bigger suggestions.

[โ€“] lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mint has a few desktops, including KDE

https://linuxiac.com/how-to-install-kde-plasma-on-linux-mint-22/

I have Cinnamon Mint on my laptop, was thinking of checking this out as I do like the KDE desktop.

[โ€“] phanto@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 day ago

I keep a Mint XFCE installed (not installer, installed) on a thumb drive that looks just like a mouse dongle. It's rescued so many computers... Like, at least six.

[โ€“] nicky7@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

Curiously, Debian images/ISOs are hosted on servers in Sweden.

I really appreciate these lists.

I would like to point out, however, that some of these distros are not that user friendly. Arch is notoriously not beginner friendly, endeavouros is slightly better but I would still not recommend if you are just fresh off the boat from Mac or Windows. Opensuse is great but its very professional based.

Pick a distro that works for you. If they are open sourced thats already most of the way there! Even devs based outside of the EU will likely share our gripes against the US's authoritarian shift and anti-big tech vibes.

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