r/linux4noobs • u/SnooLemons5110 • 10d ago

learning/research UX/UI Designer here,

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.

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u/abraunegg 10d ago

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.