Help me choose a Linux distro boys

Help me choose a Linux distro boys

I am tired of windows and want to install Linux on my not gaming PC

Dunno where to start so ask me questions or whatever

do you want something that "just werks" as much as possible

or are you ready to scratch your head, spend hours reading wikis, mess a lot of shit up and learn a billion things in the process

Peppermint

What is the advantage of a distro I will have to spend hours to setup and figure out how to work with?

What's good about it, friend?

You'll have the experience and will understand the underlying operating system better.

personal enrichment as well as the ability to solve problems on the "easier distros"

>but if they're supposed to be easy why do they break
welcome to Linux

If this is will be the first time you've used Linux as your primary OS, just go with Ubuntu.

for you, None
I suggest Debian or Ubuntu to get started, simple, user friendly, and a lot of documentation

Ubuntu based so plenty of software, works great out of the box while still allowing ample customization for any fixing needs, ICE allows for easily integrated web services

Antergos/Manjaro

*ricing not fixing stupid phone poster yeah yeah yeah

>Why should I break my legs on purpose?

>Personal enrichment as well as the ability to use a wheelchair!

Sounds good. I like learning new stuff

Though other anons are saying that starting with this more complicated distro is a bad idea. What do you think?

What distro exactly would you suggest?

If it's the first time going trough linux just go with Ubuntu. Maybe Ubuntu Gnome or Xubuntu. After you gain some knowledge and adapt to the new OS you can determine if you need a different distro. Maybe you want more maybe you want less out of it.

ubuntu gnome

So I guess I will give Ubuntu or one of its spinoffs a shot first

Any good material you would suggest I could read up on/watch for a starting Linux user?

If you want something just a touch up from "starter", consider Fedora 26. It's pretty mainstream, although they don't ship with proprietary codecs etc so most likely you'll want to fuck around with adding all that shit so you can play mp3s or whatever.

Ubuntu, straight up or any of its flavors
If it's an older machine I would personally suggest looking into Puppy Linux.
I'm a linux noob, and am currently on Xubuntu. Sometimes on Slackopup.

The spinoffs are the same OS with a different desktop environment, so they are all the same.
It's just that Unity (the stock one) is absolute shit. I personally like Xubuntu for how clean and customizable it can get if you thinker enough (if you want.)

>Software breaking down compares to bodily harm

I chuckled though.

Depends on what you want to get out of your experience and how fast you want to learn. If you just wanna play around, distros like k/x/l/Ubuntu or mint may be your best bet. If not, go all out in a virtual machine and install Arch. If you want something in the middle, maybe go Fedora?

go on youtube for reviews on the flavours

Exaggeration eases understanding friend

It's not too hard to learn as you go actually.
Just learn the basic terminal commands for now. Whenever you have any kind of repetitive task, Google for how to solve it. Linux (and especially Ubuntu) has great documentation in wikis, stack overflow, etc, but it's most useful when you have a specific goal you're trying to accomplish.

Some examples of things I had to figure out (none of these may seem useful to you, but at some point it was helpful to me or my job):

>Automatically logging into VPN, finding correct instance on ec2, and sshing into it with the correct certificate.
>Setting up a post receive hook on a git archive to automatically build code.
>Automatic nightly backups to S3 for an internal database.
>One script to create a "checkpoint" commit, push my code to the server, and shutdown my system (when I'm tired and want to go home)

Great tip Thanks!


Really appreciate all the replies, anons
Currently looking into the flawors you all have mentioned
Keep the replies coming if you have stuff to add

this

arch-anywhere

>ubuntu-tier easy installation
>muh "bleeding edge"
>aur
>simplest distro, even my grandma could use it, but maintains the ability to have more complex setups

Anyone saying otherwise is either
>a faggot riding the arch-hating bandwaggon 'cuz it's cooler than coolaid
>muh sekret club
>bait