daily driver Linux distro

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Been running pop for over a year and been very happy with it has some behaviours I'm not keen on like it doesn't auto pickup extra monitors and just little bits nothing actually serious

But I fancy a change and both mint and tuxedo seem decent.

Any thoughts?

Or do I go immutable with vanilla?

[Mr E]

I’ve run Ubuntu for years. Mostly works fairly well.

[Drive Blind]

i use Mint on machines to give older relatives access to internet and email.

it has simply always worked, never had to look for anything else.

[Mr Penguin]

Mrs Penguin uses Ubuntu, I used Fedora for five years until hardware issues made me reinstall and I changed to Manjaro.

[Monsterlime]

I gave my mum a laptop for Xmas and put PopOS on it for her and it works well for her.

I have used Debian/Ubuntu based distros for 20+ years and they are all generally quite solid, Mint will likely work well for you. It is a bit more work compared to Ubuntu to upgrade to the latest edition though.

I personally use Arch and EndeavourOS on my personal machines (Debian on server), and very much so prefer it to Ubuntu. Particularly Endeavour and would say anyone with a reasonable knowledge of Linux will do well with Endeavour. It has very sane defaults, installs most things you will need and makes Arch 'easy' (although it isn't hard really - more the installer). I would not go back to Ubuntu/Mint on the desktop now.

Keep a separate home partition and it isn't hard to switch distros.

Edited by Monsterlime on Wednesday 28th June 10:48

[psi310398]

Zorin OS is an easy switch for a Windows user. It comes bundled with a lot of useful stuff and is pretty straightforward to set up.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

Cheers! Things to think about.
All I really run on my desktop is a browser, office suite and VMware workstation for windows server labs.

Difficulty isnt too much of an issue unless it's always going wrong or just hard for the sake of it then it's no fun.

I'm now wondering if when I rebuild the wife's laptop today I stick Linux on it

[wombleh]

Tend use mint here as it has the benefits of Ubuntu underneath so issues get fixed, can use ubuntu packages, info on stack overflow usually applies, but I find the GUI suits me better

[donkmeister]

Mint is based on Ubuntu and basically makes it more windows like, if that appeals.

I use Ubuntu - the key benefit I find is community support. I'm no Linux guru, so when I want to do something that isn't just using apps in the gui I take advantage of the fact loads of people on the internet are much better at Linux than I

[devnull]

PopOS, which is based on ubuntu, and is a bit slicker in my opinion. Also has a great window tiling option built in, without the need to go for the full keyboard shortcuts only type wms which hurt my brain.

[Trustmeimadoctor]

devnull said:

PopOS, which is based on ubuntu, and is a bit slicker in my opinion. Also has a great window tiling option built in, without the need to go for the full keyboard shortcuts only type wms which hurt my brain.

Yeah I've enjoyed using it so far.

Think I'm going vanilla on my machine and mint on hers for now

[C69]

Debian 12 has just been released. Extremely stable, supported for the next five years, and there's a choice of six desktop environments. Some good reviews online already, too.

It might be suitable, if you're not bothered about having the very latest software versions?

[the-norseman]

I've used a lot through out the years. Currently got Manjaro XFCE on my mini desktop and Manjaro Gnome on my Dell XPS Ubuntu edition.

I did have ElementaryOS before that but got sick of having to do a full install every time a new release came out, Manjaro is a rolling release.

[Derek Smith]

I have used Ubunto and Mint. I've recently used the latest incarnation of the latter. Quite impressive.

The good thing about Linux distros is that you can try them all out if you wish.

[BlueMR2]

I prefer Mint's Ubuntu implementation too.

[NMNeil]

I used Mint for some time but recently decided to try Ubuntu.
Not impressed, it seems to be much much slower than Mint.

[Hedobot]

Using Manjaro on a 14 year old laptop that used to overheat with Windows 10

Has been faultless and the performance is excellent. Boots and shuts down is a few seconds.

Very happy camper

[colin79666]

Debian 12 is out now. It’s like Ubuntu but without all the Canonical rubbish. They have finally put firmware in the installer and it is fairly up to date, at least but Debian standards so 6.1 kernel and gnome 43 or your choice of other desktop. Once you add flatpak support most worries about aging app versions go away and you can enjoy the stability Debian is well known for. I’m sticking with it having jumped ship from Ubuntu.

[bmwmike]

colin79666 said:

Debian 12 is out now. It’s like Ubuntu but without all the Canonical rubbish. They have finally put firmware in the installer and it is fairly up to date, at least but Debian standards so 6.1 kernel and gnome 43 or your choice of other desktop. Once you add flatpak support most worries about aging app versions go away and you can enjoy the stability Debian is well known for. I’m sticking with it having jumped ship from Ubuntu.

Does that get rid of the snap monstrosity? If so I'm in. They fked Ubuntu with that st.

[the-norseman]

Just thinking back I've never used Debian, think my timeline goes something like this;

Started around 2002
Knoppix
Mandrake
Lindows - I installed this so my parents could carry on using the desktop PC they had bought and paid for
Fedora Core
OpenSuse - I stuck with OS for a longtime
Linux Mint
Ubuntu - Only ran this as I bought a Dell XPS Ubuntu Edition
ElementaryOS
Manjaro