It depends on whoβs asking. But if itβs someone who is curious about Linux, itβs always Mint.
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2025
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Yeah. "I use OpenSUSE tumbleweed, but have reasons I've been thinking about switching. I consistently hear that mint is a good place to start, or maybe pop!os if you're looking to run games"
I don't actually even say the first sentence unless the question was "what do you use?"
Sometimes, if it's clear they're trying to revive very old hardware I might help them search for something built around being lightweight.
I'm mostly happy with tumbleweed, except that I have the nvidia repo set up and am convinced that it's causing issues. One of these days I'll look into how to try the nouveau drivers and/or how to get from my current setup to dualbooting pop!os without disrupting things I need for work.
Also, an update straight up broke emacs while i was in crunch time once, but I learned to be more careful about my update timing.
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Shame on all of you for not knowing Hanna Montana Linux is the best possible OS ever.
I thought that it's a fact everyone using Linux just instinctively knew.
I'm a simple man, but I love Fedora
Iβve bounced around to plenty of distros, Fedora KDE is my current daily driver.
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All of them except the wrong one.
We need a healthy mashup OS between TinyCore, KolibriOS, ReactOS, and TempleOS, then I'll be happy.
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i only use this linux
I use Nyarch, btw.
Holy shit I lost it after Material UwU. The system requirements and FAQ (including a famous Torvalds quote) were excellent highlights as well.
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Hey can y'all help me out? I wanna start switching over, but I need a beginner friendly distro that can work well with my 2070 super for gaming. I need something simple to set up or I'll get ADHD paralysis and never do it.
I'd also love if it worked well with my Valve Index, but if that still has a lot of issues across the board I may still have to dual boot :c
If you like the color green pick linux mint. If you like blue pick zorinOS.
If you really want to use arch as noob pick Garuda.
80% of recommendations will be an Ubuntu/debian child so pick whatever looks good and works. See the first two.
If you really don't like Ubuntu/deb check out Fedora. If you want a big screen steam mode pick bazzite.
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i started on mint, with a 2080, played through hl alyx (with one weird issue - when i had my old xbox 360 controller plugged in, alyx and vr home couldn't start, but that was a few years ago, maybe it's not an issue any more).
which is to say, the index is not the issue, most vr games don't have a native linux version, so you have to rely on proton, and especially with nvidia cards they're far from guaranteed to run
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Mint. It started as the beginner friendly distro and it's becoming the "main" distro as of late.
Thanks!
Given they have an Nvidia and want stuff like the Valve Index to work (so in the best case to have all those super new drivers, libraries installed and stuff) it should be a distro that comes with a lot preconfigured, like the Nvidia driver.
I've heard a lot of good things about Bazzite in this regard.
Thanks for adding onto this!
Why is Tux flipped, is this some sort of subliminal message? Is BigTech behind of this meme?
Oh, oups. That's a remnance from a meme I made a few minutes earlier. However now Tux is looking towards the text, therefore this was all planned.
The best distribution is always the one you currently use. All others are trash.
oh god I'd be so so happy if someone asked me that! Whenever I say i use Linux people look at me funny π
Yeah man. The amount of times I have to shoehorn into the conversation, that I'm using Arch btw. is tiring.
Would be so much easier, if they just asked.
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You don't need to ask, because they will tell you their thoughts regardless.
Just switched to NixOS recently, after years on LMDE.
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I don't use arch btw
Toss up between Slackware, Gentoo or Linux From Scratch. Learn the hard way.
I did LFS a while ago. I can confidently say I didn't learn shit.
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it is OBJECTIVELY linux mint. Why? Because.
this comment was written on June 2025. So as of this day Mint is fabulous. And if I were to save a single distro from a burning building of all the popular distros, i would grab mint twice.
I know I know, there are many good distros, even texhnically better ones. But having used Mint as a secondary dual boot to my primary Windows, I have felt that Mint has been least annoying and actually worth retaining and updating and maintaining.
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I don't have time to mess around with Arch or customizing things. I tried a couple live boots and went with Mint. Spent 2 hours picking a theme, wallpaper, and menu icon. Boom, done.