Yeah, exactly. If a person asks for a recommendation they don’t trust their own skills enough to make their own decision or distrohop.

I feel like a website is needed to recommend a distro to people based on a very varied set of criteria that doesn’t just ask “Do you like stability over all? Debian”

Anybody that already has had a computer for 2 years and is coming from Windows will have almost no problems with Mint. Stability is top priority for first time Linux users and you need some visual guide with screenshots. Mint also has a great default look and setup for people coming from Windows. Mint is probably the best distro to put on your mom’s old laptop that is “getting slow” because of viruses.

I’d recommend KDE Neon or Ubuntu also depending on the situation but if I don’t know anything about the person and computer I’d say Mint.

Apple is from the walled garden of Eden.

And set the bar super low for other tech companies

Yes

It’s a command provided by the OS to distrotop between ublue distros. You can basically hop between silverblue, Kionite and Bazzite with a single command.

Silverblue and Kionite are both Ublue distros, one has gnome and other KDE. One nice thing is that you can just swap between gnome and KDE without breaking anything via rebasing.

I’ve been running Bazzite based on silverblue on my desktop for remote gaming and dockering. Everything was amazing until I started doing some mid-level docker stuff because of the rigidity of the distro.

Podman largely works but since it’s rootless it won’t have access to mounted drives easily due to SELinux.

Mounting a drive automatically wasn’t intuitive either and I ended up editing the /etc/fstab manually.

Setting up a swapfile was also tedious, I needed more than 8GB so I made a 32GB swapfile but I still had to run a sudo command on startup since I’m not really confident with creating a systemd service on an immutable distro.

All in all I should have just gone for Nobara or a regular Fedora but that’s because I have a really edge use-case.

That being said I still highly recommend it. It’s stable, easy to “rebase-hop” and everything just works well and it’s very stable. I’d recommend it for pretty much anyone unless you’re going to do some heavy self hosting with multiple HDs.

You can always reinstall Windows and the license is registered to the motherboard so it’ll be fine.

You could alternatively buy a hard drive and keep your entire windows system for later just in case. :)

On Bazzite you could also swap to the gnome version for a bit without worrying. That one is still X11

Way to go Wayland

Sure it has a couple of bugs but it has been super solid. I’m on KDE Neon which is the least stable Plasma distro and I barely notice bugs. Once a month Plasma crashes but it does a full recovery with windows in the exact same places.

Only issue for me is that the KWin scripting API doesn’t work the way it did so my custom shortcut doesn’t work.

What do you think Hannah Montana Linux is for?

I’m running Bazzite on desktop cpu to use with steam link and do self hosting. Docker stuff was pain but it saved me a lot of pain by having gaming work out of the box.

Anectodally is getting a lot better recently. Quantity and quality is increasing and number of upvotes per post on frontpage is also increasing.

Usually never, I’d consider something bloated if the battery life is down 10%-25% without starting programs manually.

Here’s a couple based on the vibe you’re feeling. You’ll need some compatability stuff like play on Linux to play some of them.

• RPG:Witcher 3
• City builder: Cities Skyline (one is better because of mods).
• Factory builder: Factorio
• Side scroller: Cuphead
• Historical conquer map: Crusader Kings 3
• Total War: Medieval 2
• Explore/Adventure: Subnautica (good with controller)
• Puzzle: Manifold Garden / Portal
• Rougelike: Hades
• Rougelike/Cardplay: Slay the spire

I’ve completed all of these and had a blast with all of them. :)

Jokes on you, gnome got the sweet sweet EU opensource funding

Yakuake