Unfortunately for work I have to use windows but for my personal computer I have always used PureOS or Debian.
I've heard good things about Mint and was wondering if anyone has a preference for any specific Linux distro, and why that might be?
I'm asking as I'm in the process of setting up a new system and I'm open to trying something new.
Thanks
Mint is a work bench, no messing, no fuss. it works.
Cachy, Pop, Garuda or neon have more flavour. If you are starting on Arch maybe Manjaro.
Imo more important is the desktop environment: KDE, XFCE, Gnome, Hyprland etc. this is what makes a big difference. Once you find the DE that rocks the OS might not matter.
something plesant to try pikaOS.
CachyOS is my current daily driver. I was using PopOS, and Ubuntu previously for the "beginner friendly" experience, but I've found CachyOS just as usable, and much more powerful if you are an advanced user (its based on Arch btw).
Second this. Tried Cachy for gaming on PC and next week switched on laptop too. One word — speed. It's very performant and still stable. Never in 2 years had issue. And if you have Cachy has wonderful community forum where the problem is probably already solved or is in discussion. Arch base too is amazing letting you learn Linux at your pace without getting into bare-bones Arch install (which is nonetheless very useful). I'm on Gnome but Cachy have package kits for any modern DEs and even window managers. With that being said, Arch base + Cachy performance tweaks + variety of GUI configurations seems to me that there's a good chance it'll suit any your needs.
Ok cool thanks will check it out! My only hesitation is that I see it is sponsored by Cloudflare which I see as the enemy of all privacy 😅 I wonder why they sponsor this?
I agree on Cloudflare but never heard of their sponsorship. Just looked it up and if I got it right they and CDN77 are giving some of their paid CDN stuff CachyOS for free. I guess it means that the packages from Cachy repos will be proxied through Cloudflare for faster downloads but I don't know how big of an impact it has on user's privacy. Probably they can see our IPs, package names and whatever Pacman sends in it's queries, but they can't tamper anything considering there's a TLS encryption layer. I proxy my main browser through Tor, don't do much on the second one, and don't use a lot of packages, so I don't worry much :D So I guess they know at least my browser heh. Anyways I may be gravely mistaken and hope someone corrects me
I've ran Linux Mint all version at some point on Laptops and PCs it's still the easiest Windows crossover.
I use Ubuntu for my Home Infrastructure PC right now. I'm not on it really now it's pretty much run by my Hermes Agent.
I'm using Omarchy because now with the AI Harness it sits right with the OS instead of being bolted on after and fighting the OS.
Omarchy is its own beast though beautiful layout and concept but there is a learning curve to it.
I'd say for ease of use Mint is just that...easy.
Thanks for the input.
Omarchy certainly looks great!
Can you share any resources that would help speed run learning Omarchy?
https://learnomarchy.com/
Install this on Omarchy and Omarchy will help you learn.
Key bindings has been a revelation!!!
Thanks for this! My only hesitation is it's interlinking with AI systems. I inherently do not trust any AI company and specially don't want to give it access architecture around the OS itself 😬
Hermes Agent by Nous Research is an agent harness and you can put your local LLM in it like I do.
You can also not install anything. It isn't a prerequisite .
I will second the use of Mint as I personally don't use my laptop for a whole lot compared to my phone and Mint is one of those systems that you install it and you know the thing is going to work every time you turn the computer on. I'm using the Linux Mint Debian Edition and very much enjoying it
Great thanks, I'll have to look into it again.
I do recall installing mint on my wife's old laptop (which has horrid specs) and mint was to taxing for it. Debian ran without issue so I've always favoured Debian moving forward cause if it can work on a hunk of junk then it will work well on anything lol