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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.

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[–] [email protected] 261 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This is obviously the only correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (8 children)

I expect a screenshot of your desktop running it when you’re done polling this thread

Brb downvoting all the other OS ^^

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[–] [email protected] 135 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Mint. It's dead simple and works great.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (5 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (4 children)

For a better touchscreen experience, try the Gnome Desktop. Some people hate it because ...because people, but I love it on my exactly-same-but-not-same latitude 7389 (Arch BTW) and thinkpad 390 yoga (Debian).

I actually like the lack of endless customisation options ; I really just change the background, install the Cube and the Wobbly Windows and I'm back to work. Which I should be at right now, sigh.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (3 children)

I use touchscreen on kde plasma and it works fine. Firefox just needs some customizing

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Congratulations!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

60 minutes. We have a winner.

Downloading the ISO now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Idk if this is your first brush with Linux, I only recently had my own. Let us know if you need any help, but I promise that if you just follow the instructions, and you can, you'll get through it. ChatGPT can also be useful for bridging small knowledge gaps in tech and IT.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

yep, mint always, if OP don't like the mint looks i sugest them fedora atomic(silverblue or kinoite)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

I have bounced around a lot and found myself just wanting something stable with enough "newness" to still feel good. I started with mint and I ended on mint.

Definitely the best one directly following windows, and in my opinion best one overall.

[–] [email protected] 77 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

yeah it was withing 3 votes of winning but here's hoping

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 8 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This came way to close to winning. I don't think it counts as a linux distro though.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Fair, I did miss that requirement

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The kawaiest OS on the market

[–] [email protected] 48 points 8 months ago

Hannah Montana Linux

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (16 children)

Go to the deep end with NixOS!

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

Debian Bookworm – yes, it’s boring – but that also means no surprises or gotchas – it just keeps truckin’ along

EDIT: if you ever do feel Arch-curious, start with EndeavourOS instead

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Suicide Linux

If you mistype a command your distro gets destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Can’t beleive that Uwuntu didn’t come up…

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

Linux from Scratch

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Atomic

The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.

Well having a working computer would be an improvement.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

Install Gentoo, feel the burn!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago

Fedora with KDE.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 8 months ago

Debian with XFCE. Lightweight, clean and stable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

UWUNTU , linux mint or fedora

[–] GarlicToast 9 points 8 months ago (7 children)

NixOS or Debian. Don't install Ubuntu or Arch on your work computer.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Red Star OS

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

FreeBSD.

because, why not?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you like how Mint looks, install Mint. If you prefer KDE or GNOME, install Fedora Silver blue or Kinoite.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago

I mean , I think people have suggested those already. You can upvote them if you please.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago (2 children)

THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS Linux

Or just go NixOS so you may continue some amount of torment

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

Fedora Atomic, choose whatever DE you like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Arch Linux plssssss

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