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    The Council Will Decide Your Fate (lemmy.world)
    submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    Machine is a HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-eu1xxx with the touch screen. Ryzen 7 5825U, touch screen 16gb RAM.

    Top recommendation of within one hour of me posting this decides what distro I install. Please not Hannah Montana linux or even worse, Arch.

    I leave the decision up to you.

    Edit:

    The winner was linux mint. I've downloaded the ISO and am installing now. I hope my boss doesn't get pissed.

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    [–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Not sure how much experience you have with Linux but if you know the basics (and perhaps a little more depending on your definition) I personally would recommend EndeavourOS. I have fedora on my laptop but I'm not that happy with it, while EndeavourOS on my desktop is running nicely. I use i3 but am switching over to hyprland though I have to do that manually. The installer has a lot of options for wms and other packages though which is why I like it. It also has some GUIs for updating the arch mirrors and everything else you might need to do the first time you run it.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

    I'm not going in totally blind - I have experience with using linux on the server side. I've just never used it for a personal desktop environment.

    [–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

    Then it might be nice to start off with whatever distro you were using so you're familiar with the package manager and then just get yourself a DE/WM (or Wayland compositor but I think Wayland isn't quite far enough to start off with yet although I've only used Hyprland) that you'll be happy with. Then when you've gotten used to everything it's much easier to try out new stuff.