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[–] franklin@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Agreed 8 gave me a headache but 8.1 was probably my favorite. Oh well at least we still have Linux, about to switch, is Fedora a good place to start?

[–] rzlatic@lemmy.ml 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

yes. being on fedora for last five years, no complaints whatsoever, but i did ditch the nvidia for amd to spare myself the neverending story of nvidia and linux.

[–] franklin@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

That won't be an issue I'm already on a 6950 XT, it's in all my AMD system so I think I should be okay device compatibility wise.

[–] dirtypirate@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

Fedora is good for servers and corporate environments, Mint is good for a familiar desktop, Ubuntu is good for mac users.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 months ago

Fedora is a great first distro! I do recommend looking at the GNOME ui, as it's what Fedora (and vanilla Ubuntu) use; I really like GNOME but it's not for everyone as it's pretty opinionated and innovative. Linux Mint is another popular choice for newcomers, it uses a very simple UI that will be very familiar to any Windows user.