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[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

My advice is to just look at the screenshots of a few mainstream ones and pick one that looks the most usable.

A few:

  • Mint - Can't go wrong if you like traditional desktop.
  • Pop OS - Great for gaming (and many other things).
  • Zorin - Never used it, but it's supposedly easy, and very polished.
  • Ubuntu - Has many haters (including myself), because of nuances, but honestly it'll do the job just fine.
[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

What's wrong about Ubuntu according to you?

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It seems that Canonical likes to spend a lot of resources on building projects on their own and put them into Ubuntu, only to discontinue them for another solution after some amount of years.

They're currently pushing hard for their snap packages. It isn't a bad concept per se but their Snap Store server is closed source, with no alternatives repositories so far. There are also other options, like Flatpak, which is more widespread, and fully open.

[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Understood mate, thx for your help I will think about it, beside snap thing, there is something else concerning about Ubuntu?

[–] Bezier@suppo.fi 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not much that I can think of. I used it until a few years ago, and the experience was pretty good.

[–] PoliticallyIncorrect@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago

Thx for you help mate 👍👍