I want to move away from windows because they are literally pushing ads into a paid operating system lol. So can yall recommend a beginner friendly distro?
By beginner friendly I just mean stable and less likely to break from me messing with the terminal.
Distro hopping is the way. I started with mint. LMDE is what I recommend. I heard good reviews about fedora too
I recently switched from Windows to Linux for the first time.
I went with Debian and I am happy with it!
Keep in mind that “stable” in software and especially in Linux usually means “has few bugs and the API won’t change” rather than “doesn’t randomly crash.”
That first part usually translates into “is rather outdated and thus can’t support the latest hardware.”
Modern Linux isn’t prone to random crashes unless you run on the absolute bleeding edge of development or on janky hardware.
With that in mind I can’t recommend Debian- or Ubuntu-based distros, since they’re out-of-date by design. While the learning curve of vanilla Arch Linux may be a little steep for most newbies, I still recommend taking a look at Arch-based distros like EndeavorOS.
You won’t have to configure everything from scratch, although that is highly educational and I recommend doing it at some point for the learning experience. But you still get to take full advantage of the Arch wiki. Likely the best-maintained Linux wiki in existence.
Yeah. If someone have a good DE , arch is as easy as some other distros. I have 3 friends whose laptops i installed with pure arch + GNOME ( by sideloading aside windows, but setting arch as default 😈) . Its still on their laps, and the only problem they only thing i had to say them was to update weekly or bi-weekly.
I recommend Pop! OS. It’s stable and their ISOs already have GPU drivers ready to go.
Plain Debian. Minimal installation size, huge app repository, can find tutorials for almost anything everywhere. Any OS you can fudge up from the terminal. I suggest making a second rig, one where the stuff on it isn’t very important, and just learn without worrying about erasing your /home directory. Short of that, install on a second hard drive and dual boot that way. I would not install on the same drive as your windows install.
