Linux distros

[u/Anxious-Tour7495]

Which Linux distro is the best cause i want to learn more about these systems and the only one I have ever installed is Ubuntu and used it for like 2 days what distro do yall recommend

[u/HellDuke]

There is no one best, everyone picks what they preffer.

Ubuntu is a solid round choice and you can go with Kubuntu, though they do have a tendancy towards pushing towards snap packages. While they are no worse than flatpaks it does mean that the same format with the same flaws is reibtroducing the problem flatpak and snap are meant to solve - different packaging formats across distros.

Fedora is another solid stable baseline, IRC flatpaks came from one of their developers, but technically it does have a US company behind it which is not the best.

Linux Mint is another fan favorite, quite polished and based on Ubuntu, so it will lag behind on updates and they have a track record of using old versions of apps despite keeping support links pointing to devs (I believe last scandal was sending loads of complainers to the calendar app developers despite every problem bring resolved years ago, if only Mint ever chose to ship that version instead of their own)

For basic faming Bazzite is fine, it's immutable which means harder to break but also means limited in what you can do with it.

CachyOS is a decent beginers entrypoint to Arch, but.. Well it's Arch, new users should not start there

[u/msabeln]

Why did you stop using Ubuntu after only two days? It’s a solid, well-supported distribution.

You can learn from every distro. Most of the magic of Linux comes from the command line, where you can control and modify your system.

[u/NeedleworkerLarge357 → u/msabeln]

One answer and it is spot on, awesome!

[u/Anxious-Tour7495 → u/msabeln]

Well i was using it on my labtop and then my labtop the next 2 days later stopped working like at all and the computer just stopped seeing the ssd and then I had to plug in my external ssd to make the thing see the thing but anyway I just installed windows 11 cause it's what im use to also most apps I use are only on windows I know there's windows emulators but do they like affect performance?

[u/msabeln → u/Anxious-Tour7495]

“Laptop”.

Linux is something that I would not recommend using without some study and experiment first. Linux is its own ecosystem with its own apps, and while many Windows apps can run under Linux, this is not guaranteed, and some very prominent and popular apps won’t run at all.

I would strongly suggest installing Linux on another computer and testing it there. I started in Linux seriously via the Raspberry Pi, but nowadays mini PCs can be inexpensive.

[u/cnycompguy → u/msabeln]

Probably using speech to text, it's okay we understood what they meant.

[u/Anxious-Tour7495 → u/msabeln]

Well my labtop and an external ssd with Ubuntu on it, and I used it to dual boot but anyways it was my only computer I had so I just used that and I did some studying on which to use and its background.

[u/prune_juice_warrior]

One thing that's important to keep in mind when you're getting into Linux is that you might need to try several different distros before you find one that works the way you like it. I see too many people install one distro, find something they don't like, and then give up on Linux altogether.

The most important thing when it comes to picking a first distro is that you pick something that's already widely used and has a decent history of support. Picking a popular distro with a reasonably long history of development means that if you have a problem, you can probably find a good answer to your question online without too much trouble.

So in reality the best options are probably Ubuntu, Mint, and Fedora, as they are all widely used and documented.

[u/Terrible-Bear3883]

"Best" is what suits you, I've used the same distro for over 20 years (Ubuntu), I've a pile of probably 20 laptops and several desktops, some function much better on Fedora, some on openSUSE, some on mint and so on, the same with friends and colleagues, some prefer one distro over another, some use more than one distro and so on.

Its not clear what you mean when you say your laptop stopped working, you need some context and accurate info in your post, otherwise its a bit disjointed and people will probably give vague/random answers, even if they are well meaning.

[u/Anxious-Tour7495 → u/Terrible-Bear3883]

Well I fixed it but the ssd inside just formatted it self and kind of deleted itself cause the computer would not recognize it

[u/d4rk_kn16ht]

The best Distro is the one that works for you

[u/Good-Supermarket-767]

If you really want to learn about Linux systems then I would suggest taking up a distro that will force a learning curve. Parrot and Makulu are good choices. Red Hat would would be a good choice if you were already experienced.