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What's the best distro for a windows user with some linux experience (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Original question by @[email protected]

I have used linux in a past job (I did not set it up), so im not a total noob with linux. But I am far from an expert. I bought a tablet that had a flavor of linux on it and found myself woefully unprepared trying to navigate the tablet. I was planning to use it for DnD for pdf reading, but it apparently wasn't capable of that bcz it was a rather custom OS. With windows 10 support being dropped by Microsoft in the next few months, I want to transition my desktop to Linux, and I thought I'd get a headstart on that. I have a windows 11 laptop (and I hate it), but im kinda stuck with it for now. So, in the spirit of I am a noob who isn't quite a noob, what do ya'll recommend? p.s. I used Ubuntu for a bit way way back in high school

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[–] cyborganism 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.

Hassle free, easy to use and the desktop environment closely resembles Windows.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

This and consider also Linux Mint.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Linux Mint is nice, but I feel like the look & feel is starting to look outdated. Otherwise it's an excellent choice.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

@cyborganism @cm0002 I tried to deploy it for my software team, but I had to backtrack during the early testing phase after a number of issues. Kubuntu seems way less tested than normal Ubuntu. We ended up going with Mint instead, which is also what I would recommend.

I would imagine this might change a bit in Lubuntu 26.04, being on KDE 6 is probably a very good thing for an LTS