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What's the best distro for a windows user with some linux experience (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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

Edit: I do game dev with Unreal. Another user pointed out that may affect my choice of distro

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Man, we need to be able to pin some posts and answer these quesrions once.

I'm not saying there's a single answer (I use Arch btw), but if we could just group all these Q&As in 1 post...

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What's the point of a linux community if you cant ask these kinds of questions? A pinned post like that would get stale over time. You are free to just keep scrolling. You also didn't answer the question...so you contributed nothing except to complain about my post.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I think you've read me wrong there.

First up, I presume you searched for other posts like this one? If not, a pinned post might've made that easier for you to get started (ie Mint)

Second, the pinned post doesn't become a final answer, it's a starting point to add to the discussion, (ie you tried Mint, but didn't like X, Y & Z)

From my pov there are a lot of posts asking this same question and this was simply a reflection on how we could improve the community... and your experience.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

You mean you're experience...I dont think i got you wrong at all. You don't want to see these kinds of posts.