Easy! The only I use. The rest are too bloated and/or have too little built in and are too easy/hard. Real Linux wizards agree
That one.
Daily driven Mint, OpenSuse Tumbleweed and Fedora. They're all great, with their own pros and cons.
Once you slack, you never go back.
I don't know maybe the bue one
I use the blue one, btw
What about Manjaro Linux?
I've been using Manjaro with Cinnamon for about a month now. It works great on an old Lenovo with 12gb ram. Probably going to stick with it when I build my desktop.
Once you get out of a monoculture, you start to better appreciate that 'best' is a subjective term.
Some distros are better for some users (and purposes) and others for others.
But it's got to be Mint ;p
Hmm, probably going to have to distro hop for a few more weeks and get back to you
Simple, GNU Guix System Distribution because it's not an Operating System
The one that everyone likes.
Mint is (subjectively, for 90% of people), because something a lot of Linux nerds seem to forget is that the average computer user does not even want to think about their operating system. 90%+ of people who use a computer want it to turn on and just work for the things they want to do, and for like, 99% of the time, Mint has been just that for me for a solid year and a half. I adore it for that reason, and wish more Windows users would just try switching to it. I understand the apprehension not to, having tried other distros over the years (and having fought with Bazzite on my steam deck on multiple occasions), but it really does "just work".
like I get it, some like to fiddle-fuck with their OS, and that's cool, but that does not appeal to the majority of people and pretending it should is asinine. Some of us want to view and use our computer as an appliance/a means to an end, not a project in and of itself. When I used Windows and had issues, you know how much fun I had digging around in Event Viewer, or Group Policy Editor, or Regedit, or Control Panel? Zero. Zero fun was had. Same amount of fun I have dicking around with Linux. I want my computer to turn on, do what I tell it to, nothing I don't (this is the sticking point that got me to leave Windows), and god damnit if it breaks it'd better be as easy as googling an error message (which, Mint also has enough reach/widespread use that it usually is). Anyone who disagrees, I applaud your patience, but that is simply not the way I and most other people operate.
And salty Linux ricer downvotes get me moist, so bring it on, dweebs.
the average computer user does not even want to think about their operating system. 90%+ of people who use a computer want it to turn on and just work for the things they want to do
I’m the more typical Lemmy user that DOES think about their operating system and will happily fiddle-fuck with it on occasion. And I still use and love Mint because even in 90%+ of the cases when I use the computer it is to do something WITH the computer and not do something TO the computer.
The “it just works” factor is very high with it.
Pop os is easy and doesn't look like windows 95
Stuck on version 22.04
Pop!_OS is more outdated than Debian
Probably because they've been building their own DE (which will replace their GNOME fork) for a while now. It's in alpha and hopefully will roll out in the next few months. Having said that, I don't have issues doing the things I want to do. I think it's fine for now because 22.04 is LTS, so most app makers support it.
you must've not seen Mint in a long time if you think it looks like Windows 95, I'm using it right now and it looks much nicer.
Further, that's really not the cutting dig you think it is. Windows 95, for all its boxy, gray 90s aesthetic, was a very clean UI with minimal bullshit. If you like ricing your desktop/want it to look fancy, great, I'm happy for you. Most normal users, on the other hand, really don't care how their OS looks as long as they can find what they need to. For normal users, the OS should be an invisible plinth that other programs you actually give a fuck about sit on top of. Mint stays the fuck out of my way to that end impeccably well.
Going directly from modern Windows to the Cinnamon desktop in Mint was a distinct improvement!
I was kind of kidding, I just think it's wild that out of all the options, mint is recommended 9/10 times
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