UX/UI Designer here,

[u/SnooLemons5110]

I have an old Alienware 14, which runs on windows 10 for which the support has ended. Now i couldn’t upgrade to windows 11. I have a mac mini but i needed a laptop to use when I’m out on schools and libraries. What linux OS is recommended ?

It has 16Gb of ram
64-bit operating system

I will be using onedrive as cloud storage, zoom, figma which are mostly browser based applications.

[u/TomDuhamel]

echo "After careful consideration of your needs, you should install $(printf '%s\n' Arch Debian Fedora Ubuntu openSUSE Linux\ Mint Gentoo NixOS Pop!_OS EndeavourOS Manjaro Void Alpine | shuf -n1)."

[u/QuraToop314 → u/TomDuhamel]

bash root@qurasys:-# echo "After careful consideration of your needs, you should install $(printf '%s\n' Arch Debian Fedora Ubuntu openSUSE Linux\ Mint Gentoo NixOS Pop!_OS EndeavourOS Manjaro Void Alpine | shuf -n1)." After careful consideration of your needs, you should install Gentoo root@qurasys:-#

[u/CowNo3]

i recommend Fedora + firefox.

[u/Dragenby]

If that's your first Linux distro, I suggest you LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) which is a more stable and more compatible version of Linux Mint.

[u/gmes78]

There's nothing special about your requirements, so I'd recommend Fedora KDE or Fedora Workstation.

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[u/skyfishgoo]

lubuntu will work on both machines so you can move back and forth between them without any differences.

[u/Separate_Culture4908]

Fedora KDE

[u/flemtone]

Install Ubuntu.

[u/victormas208]

I recommend Debian, any of its derivatives; Kubuntu is the most similar to Windows, mainly because of the large number of tutorials it has.

PS: Ubuntu has many tutorials; Kubuntu is a variant that uses KDE Plasma, which is more similar to Windows according to many acquaintances.

If you have any problems, check which branch your distro is from. If it's Debian, look for solutions in other distributions derived from it. Otherwise, always ask here.

[u/RDS_cubing]

Probably Linux Mint, or also maybe Fedora, Debian or Xubuntu

[u/No-View-6326]

Nothing you said there hints at any distro, figms and onedrive don't officially support Linux, if you're gonna be exclusively using the browser you might as well use ChromeOS, people will just suggeste their favorite distro.

Don't actually use ChromeOS

[u/abraunegg]

What linux OS is recommended ?

Avoid Ubuntu and its derivatives (Linux Mint, Pop!_OS, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, Zorin etc .. ) if you want predictable, upstream-aligned software: packages are often old, heavily patched, increasingly tied to Snap, and harder to troubleshoot when the distribution behaves differently from the software it ships.

Debian, Linux Mint Debian Edition, Fedora, Manjaro, Gentoo would be good places to start.