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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).

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PSA: When people ask you "What distro should I use?", try pointing them here (distrochooser.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I found this site a while back - basically it will ask you a bunch of questions on your usage of your PC, and will came out with a list of recommended distros, and a list of reasons why YOU could like or not like it.

https://distrochooser.de/

There are some similar sites to this one, but since I'm not familiar with them, I won't post them. They are simply DuckDuckGo-able though.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just did the questionnaire for shits and giggles, not expecting much. The top two suggestions were fedora and debian. I'm actually running fedora and debian on different machines. I wonder how much of a fluke that is, or if it really is that good. Anybody else, who's already happy with their distribution(s), tried it?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Yep, for me Arch was top of the list, followed by Gentoo and Void. I was completely expecting Arch or something like EndeavorOS to be at the top, so I'm totally unsurprised. Seems pretty good to me!