Currently running Kali on my laptop as that’s all it was used for. Looking for something more general purpose. Mainly steam for light gaming and being able to install the tools from Kali for stuff like tryhackme. Mostly familiar with Debian, as that’s what Kali is based on, but willing to try something else. Laptop is this Acer.

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    Why not Debian? It’s a fantastic distro on its own, without the need to bolt on vendor’s stuff if you already know what you’re doing.

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      Fedora 38 is awesome. Yeah, Red Hat drama I know, but I think Fedora will be fine.

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        Fedora is a fine distro. Red Hat is still a huge contributor to the open source community, despite the decisions made by IBM managers to restrict RHEL source code. It just means that it’ll be a little more difficult to make RHEL clones going forward, but I doubt it’ll have any lasting impact. Rocky Linux, AlmaLinux and other RHEL based distros have all announced that they intend to continue their operations, with little to no change in how they do things. Really, the controversy is overblown.

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      I doubt my experience was the same as everyone else but I tried to install Debian on my gaming pc a week ago and I could not get Nvidia drivers to work for anything, there were no relevant search results and no one on any message board had any ideas. I gave up and installed Arch and Nvidia drivers without making any hardware changes and it was so unexpectedly easy I still can’t believe it.

      I use Debian on my server so I was shocked that it was basically impossible to get Nvidia drivers working, at least on my chipset.

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        there were no relevant search results>

        Not sure if you were only looking for debian specific posts, but most arch or ubuntu tutorials work just fine most of the time.

        Not sure how new your card is, but i got a 3080 working… I’m on sid though. Maybe thats the difference

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    Debian just released version 12 and it regularly gets high marks for being a good, solid distro – if you want a little more edge, you can switch over to Debian Sid …

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      Mint is my recommendation too for general purpose desktop PC. Debian also works, but I found that Mint has most of the stuff already working out of the box, so I’ve stuck to that on my laptops since 2014 or thereabouts. On servers I prefer Debian.

      Honorable mention: Zorin OS

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    Fedora. I’d avoid Ubuntu and its derivatives like Pop! or Arch derivatives. I think Arch is fine, especially if you know what you’re doing, but Arch derivatives in my experience are much less stable than for example Ubuntu or Fedora.

    But seriously. Fedora. It’s the best. Ubuntu is actually fine too but Blue > Orange

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        I love Fedora, especially Silverblue, but the telemetry thing lately creeped me out. Jumped to Debian with no regrets

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          Eh, it’s opt-in so if even if you don’t do anything, nothing changes.

          It’s perfectly fine to ask users if they’re okay with telemetry. I’m fine with that. The problem comes when it’s opt-out or if there’s no way to opt-out.

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    Hear me out, grab ventoy, a decent USB drive (32-64 gb), download debian, kubuntu (maybe), fedora/mojara, any live arch derivative (endeavour, arco, artix. Stay away of Manjaro) and anything else you found appealing. Put all of them there and go nuts. At the end of the day, it’s always night.

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    Personally love PopOS! It’s super easy and convient, has a super smart window tiling manager worth trying out!

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    Linux mint if you are new.

    ZorinOS if your mom will use your PC.

    Arch linux if you are sane.

    Gentoo if you are insane.

    Ubloatu, Fedora, Slackware and friends if you want to be a “different” user.

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    You could do straight Debian or anything else Debian-based like Mint Debian Edition or MX.

    Otherwise Fedora is very recommended for general purpose desktop Linux. But, that isn’t Debian.

    I don’t know if Kali is really recommended for general purpose.

    I’m interested in seeing the other recommendations here, it is always fun to see what other users recommend or use. I use Alpine but it isn’t always perfect as a desktop for people who don’t like things breaking.

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    Since you’re more familiar with Debian, I recommend Linux Mint. Ubuntu if you don’t care about snap. These are generally good and pretty friendly. If you know your way around Linux and want something else that also has up-to-date stuff (Debian is always a little behind on updates) and you don’t mind reading on some documentation to get started, you could also try Fedora. Kali Linux tools are available to most distributions.

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    your computer can pretty much run every single distribution in any desktop environment without a problem so go wild and try lots of them, pick anything a let yourself have a good week with it and it’s online documentation to do your thing every of them have good and bad parts. when asked the filesystem pick btrfs and set-up snapshots, that will save your ass when needed and it’s so quick you could break your system every week without being bothered

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    Fedora is just flat-out king for desktop IMO. It has packages that are new, but not unstable. Lots of Red Hat engineers use it as a daily driver, so fixes come quick, and it has a pretty large user base. It’s made for this stuff.

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        No, I mean Red Hat engineers. Despite being a wholly-owned subsidiary of IBM, they are separate orgs. This probably doesn’t mean anything to you, because you are mad at Red Hat, but that doesn’t mean that the decisions made were done by IBM’s executives, and most IBM engineers probably aren’t running Fedora Linux.

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    Pop!_OS, Debian, and Fedora are my distros of choice lately. Been tempted to try out NixOS as well.