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.
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.
Wubuntu. Because it’s a total craze on YouTube right now.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HlbpczpDM
Its good to be king, maybe. But its a sad story.
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It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.
Install Gentoo, feel the burn!
MX Linux
MX linux looks sick af. I was expecting more meme recomendations, but aye, voting is only been going for 7 minutes.
I think I could deal with Hannah Montana linux. I don’t know if I could deal with Arch.
I had to try really hard not to make a joke as a recommendation. But on second thought, I really think you should use Red Star OS.
Red Star OS
Oh god.
But yeah, its kinda a meme thread. I was gonna load whatever was the top comment and try it out for at least a week.
Suicide Linux! You won’t need a week.
for more touchscreen usage,pop!_os
otherwise, kubuntu or some other kde de distro
ElementaryOS
Debian Bookworm – yes, it’s boring – but that also means no surprises or gotchas – it just keeps truckin’ along
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
I don’t think there’s a good reason these days. With ArchInstall, the process is as easy as other distros and then all you have to do is install a DE and you’re all set. Arch used to have a much higher barrier to entry; that just doesn’t exist anymore.
You can even install the DE from archinstall.
So their reasoning may have been a graphical installer? I also wanted that but since I used a tutorial to get arch installed and working on my raspberry pi, I didn’t actually use a graphical installer and I didn’t miss it.
Go to the deep end with NixOS!
But there’s Guix
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?
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.
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?
Gonna do him dirty like that.
OP gonna have a fun ride, Nix got me good.
GNU Guix is where it’s at
Can’t install proprietary apps --> useless as a work machine.
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”
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.
NixOS or Debian. Don’t install Ubuntu or Arch on your work computer.
Legit question - why not Ubuntu?
Too many issues. Everything from snap to lack of proper testing
Ubuntu is really buggy. Including bug reports that has a simple fix and stay open for years.
Just look how they handled Graphviz
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/graphviz/+bug/1409280
They somehow manage to break packages that just work everywhere else.
On top of that they add shity homemade solutions such as snap cus they have to reinvent the wheel. They than discard them a few years later and use proper solution created by more capable people (upstart lol).
Interesting, good to know. I’m not quite there yet, but my next build will 100% run linux, I just haven’t decided on the distro yet. Thanks for the info!
Not sure how much experience you have with Linux but if you know the basics (and perhaps a little more depending on your definition) I personally would recommend EndeavourOS. I have fedora on my laptop but I’m not that happy with it, while EndeavourOS on my desktop is running nicely. I use i3 but am switching over to hyprland though I have to do that manually. The installer has a lot of options for wms and other packages though which is why I like it. It also has some GUIs for updating the arch mirrors and everything else you might need to do the first time you run it.
I’m not going in totally blind - I have experience with using linux on the server side. I’ve just bever used it for a personal desktop environment.
Can’t beleive that Uwuntu didn’t come up…
People nowadays have no taste
Arch Linux plssssss
Those are some seriously freaky cone-people
Why would your boss get pissed? Does he care about the O.S people are using?
Jokes on them (I am the boss)
Depending on MDM and conditional access policies, I’d say probably
Most corporate environments would not be ok with you randomly deciding to replace the OS, yes.
lfs :3
