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.
Hannah Montana Linux
This is obviously the only correct answer.
I expect a screenshot of your desktop running it when you’re done polling this thread
Brb downvoting all the other OS ^^
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You gotta tell us what happened
Well technically Mint won. But don’t worry, you did get second runner up. Maybe next month?
Aw that’s okay, OP. This you btw?
Edit I am just kidding, hope you enjoy your new distro! :)
How? It got 100 votes less
I put a 1 hr limit on the game. At the one hour mark, Mint was still winning.
Mint. It’s dead simple and works great.
For a better touchscreen experience, try the Gnome Desktop. Some people hate it because …because people, but I love it on my exactly-same-but-not-same latitude 7389 (Arch BTW) and thinkpad 390 yoga (Debian).
I actually like the lack of endless customisation options ; I really just change the background, install the Cube and the Wobbly Windows and I’m back to work. Which I should be at right now, sigh.
I use touchscreen on kde plasma and it works fine. Firefox just needs some customizing
I’ve found it depends on version / distro. My Debian install of Firefox doesn’t feature gestures, which is frustrating all the more because the Epiphany browser has them. On Asahi, where it feels super natural on apple hardware, it woks excellently.
Now these gestures… I found myself swiping 2 fingers to go back in my file browser a lot recently and I don’t know if I come from the future or if I’m being a slightly uncoordinated smooth brain.
Its likely just a setting in about:config
Or install Firefox from the official deb repo, or from flathub
I’m an arch. Might try it out on debian if I get the chance
Mint’s cinnamon is gnome fork tho
Am I the only one kinda upset that it’s not referred to as ‘CinnaMint’?
The touch support on mint is good as well if I’m recalling correctly
Congratulations!
I would have recommended mint too. Currently running it since I betrayed debian or it betrayed me.
Debian would be my next recommendation however pure debian is a bit tricky for beginners especially.
Great choice. Put it on my parent’s old office PC after yet another malware incident. Never looked back. Machine instant feels fresh and snappy again. It still runs of an HDD and has only 4GB RAM since one of the 4GB died along the way. Still a perfect office machine.
How would your boss ever find out?
60 minutes. We have a winner.
Downloading the ISO now.
Idk if this is your first brush with Linux, I only recently had my own. Let us know if you need any help, but I promise that if you just follow the instructions, and you can, you’ll get through it. ChatGPT can also be useful for bridging small knowledge gaps in tech and IT.
yep, mint always, if OP don’t like the mint looks i sugest them fedora atomic(silverblue or kinoite)
I have bounced around a lot and found myself just wanting something stable with enough “newness” to still feel good. I started with mint and I ended on mint.
Definitely the best one directly following windows, and in my opinion best one overall.
Hannah Montana linux
yeah it was withing 3 votes of winning but here’s hoping
Temple OS
This came way to close to winning. I don’t think it counts as a linux distro though.
Fair, I did miss that requirement
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Its good to be king, maybe. But its a sad story.
It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.
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Uwuntu :3
The kawaiest OS on the market
Hannah Montana Linux
Go to the deep end with NixOS!
GNU Guix is where it’s at
Can’t install proprietary apps --> useless as a work machine.
Distrobox with Arch for proprietary apps?
Makes about as much sense as buying a mac with apple silicon to develop x86 linux apps or windows to develop linux apps.
this is not how Guix works - please don’t blindly spread misinformation
Install firefox on stock guix please.
add channel nonguix install firefox
since when is “adding a channel” not part of the “stock” system? if that were so nothing would ever be part of debian based stock systems
my point being: you can and probably should try to bring it into your workplace
since when is “adding a channel” not part of the “stock” system? if that were so nothing would ever be part of debian based stock systems
That’s literally what it is? You’re trying to make a Theseus ship argument where there is none. By your logic, ubuntu would be stock debian. “it’s just a few apt repos with their packages installed”
I took a look at NixOS. Am I correct in the assumption that I’d need to take a bachelor’s degree to actually get how to use that thing and I’m shit outta luck because I’m an embedded programmer?
Just taking Advanced Functional Programming should be enough.
I have taken such a course, actually, but frankly my NixOS configuration is just a bunch of copy paste from all around the place. I think I could’ve pulled it off before going to college.
So it’s the natural heir to Emacs?
No, not even slightly.
I played around with it for an hour and had the whole thing figured out.
There’s one config file, you add the packages you want to it. Done. Once you’ve got the syntax the rest is a piece of cake.
I know about the config file. But updating, flakes, home-management, etc make my head spin.
OP gonna have a fun ride, Nix got me good.
But there’s Guix
Gonna do him dirty like that.
If you mistype a command your distro gets destroyed.
Debian Bookworm – yes, it’s boring – but that also means no surprises or gotchas – it just keeps truckin’ along
EDIT: if you ever do feel Arch-curious, start with EndeavourOS instead
Why endeavor? I recently tried arch for the first time and I’ve had a really great experience. It runs great on my raspberry pi 5, a device not actually supported by it. It actually feels and works a lot better than the two other distros that do officially support it: RPI OS and Ubuntu.
Personally I would say start with Arch and if you like it use endeavorOS. Endeavor is just easy install for arch(and the only one I’ve tried that actually achieved it well) so if you already know the inner workings it saves a lot of tedious install work and has some nice QOL defaults already set like yay colorized
Can’t beleive that Uwuntu didn’t come up…
People nowadays have no taste
Fedora Silverblue.
Atomic
The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.
Well having a working computer would be an improvement.
I was playing with Silverblue but had to switch out because it didn’t have DisplayLink drivers or a flatpak for VMWare Horizon which meant I couldn’t connect to work
Linux from Scratch
How 'bout you decide for yourself? Despite what highschool and webster’s dictionary suggest, what’s popular has no bearing on what’s right. In fact, what’s popular has occasionally turned out to be Very Wrong.
Install Gentoo, feel the burn!
