Gryzor , 1 year ago

I’d go for Pop if you’re new. It’s not perfect and System 76 are busy developing their window manager so the distro hasn’t seen any major changes since their tiling extension, but it’s fairly stable.

I recently had a guest and we wanted to play games. I pulled a 2018 laptop with an NVidia 2060, installed the latest Pop, Steam and we were playing less than an hour later. It works fine.

I use pop to develop in Rust and Kotlin/Android.

I’m not a fan of Gnome but the tiling in pop is good and that’s what I still use it.

You can always try more distros in a VM and see if/what you like from others.