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0xd4n ,

I think the best way to decide is to fire up a bunch of VMs and install a distro on each. Going through the installation process for arch is a great way to start learning more about the OS IMO so if you’re interested in that then that’s a very beneficial thing to do anyway. I use Debian on my laptop and dual boot arch and Debian on my desktop. I’ve only ever used fedora for servers so I can’t comment on how it serves as a daily driver. Here’s a few distros I’ve used and recommend to try out. Debian Arch Manjaro ParrotOS(if you’re into security) Centos

Omniformative , (edited )

If you want to go for traditional distributions that don’t have native rollback mechanisms, I would suggest using btrfs along with something like snapper.

iopq ,

NixOS, makes it easy to have the same setup because it's all in one config file. I didn't check it out until last year when they released a graphical installer, now installing/using NixOS is a breeze.

Even if I didn't install NixOS, I'd use the Nix package manager (which is separate, but part of a NixOS system) since it has more packages than the AUR. It's easy to contribute to, so I've been maintaining a package.

moobythegoldensock ,

Your PC can run any distro smoothly. What are you looking for that Mint doesn’t provide?

iopq ,

Personally, I'm looking for reproducible environments where if you create a lock file of your packages, you will get the exact same system on another machine if you copy it over

sudman ,

NixOS can do that.

iopq ,

That's why I'm on it :^)

moobythegoldensock ,

Maybe you would like an immutable distro such as Fedora Silverblue?

iopq ,

I'm already using NixOS, which is even more powerful since it can configure my software as well as my system

tmjaea ,

Pop!_OS

pelotron ,
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Classic distro hop thread. Every distro is suggested. :)

I’ve been using Kubuntu on my gaming PC for a couple years, and Fedora on my laptop. They both work.

KindaABigDyl ,
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NixOS!!!

whodoctor11 ,
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I absolutely agree with this guy: Chris Titus’s distro tier list.. But you can try absolutely anything with this hardware.

snegg ,
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Arch Linux if you well speak with terminal, Artix if not, Gentoo if want some hard:) PopOS cool.

whodoctor11 ,
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Today’s Arch is so simple to install as Artix, because of archinstall. Still, the daily use of both is full of CLI, since is the only recommend way to manage packages, besides Gui flatpaks. I would never recommend neither of they to someone that doesn’t like terminal.

Ascend-910 ,
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If you like Linux Mint, you might wanna try Feren, but it a bit bloated tho

effingjoe ,
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I somewhat recently ran across VanillaOS, which I have only really had time to install and play around with for a few minutes, but it seems really cool. A very brief overview is that it is a sort-of-but-not-really immutable OS that leans very heavily on containerization to allow you to install packages from any other distro in a seamless-to-the-user way. So you can install an application (cli or GUI) from an ubuntu repo and use it along side an application from an arch repo. It's ubuntu-based, but according to the info on that link, the next release switches to being debian-based.

I mostly use ChromeOS these days-- well, I guess technically I mostly use SteamOS these days-- so I don't have a lot of hands-on experience with VanillaOS, but I found the concept really cool and from a few minutes of playing around with it, it seemed to work pretty well with respect to the containerization stuff.

borlax ,
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TempleOS

samsy ,

Holy shit! *literally

oldschoolnerd ,
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I’m running Debian 12 on an Intel i5-2500K (integrated graphics) with 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD and it runs smooth and rock solid.

necrxfagivs ,

I’m using Fedora and I’m really happy with it. Pretty solid distro,

samsy ,

I don’t like what RedHat is actually doing, but yes Fedora is the successor.

necrxfagivs ,

I’m not happy with RedHat neither. And Fedora 40 considering to add telemetry doesn’t help. I love Fedora tho, but if RHEL keeps heading the way is going I’ll hop to another distro.

Maybe is time to try Arch and embrace the meme (and learn, I’m a lil scared)

iks ,

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