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.
Hannah Montana Linux
This is obviously the only correct answer.
I expect a screenshot of your desktop running it when you’re done polling this thread
Brb downvoting all the other OS ^^
Hannah Montana linux
yeah it was withing 3 votes of winning but here’s hoping
Red Star OS
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.
It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.
Mint. It’s dead simple and works great.
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.
I use touchscreen on kde plasma and it works fine. Firefox just needs some customizing
I’ve found it depends on version / distro. My Debian install of Firefox doesn’t feature gestures, which is frustrating all the more because the Epiphany browser has them. On Asahi, where it feels super natural on apple hardware, it woks excellently.
Now these gestures… I found myself swiping 2 fingers to go back in my file browser a lot recently and I don’t know if I come from the future or if I’m being a slightly uncoordinated smooth brain.
Its likely just a setting in about:config
Or install Firefox from the official deb repo, or from flathub
I’m an arch. Might try it out on debian if I get the chance
Mint’s cinnamon is gnome fork tho
Am I the only one kinda upset that it’s not referred to as ‘CinnaMint’?
I would have recommended mint too. Currently running it since I betrayed debian or it betrayed me.
Debian would be my next recommendation however pure debian is a bit tricky for beginners especially.
How would your boss ever find out?
60 minutes. We have a winner.
Downloading the ISO now.
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.
I would have said CentOS but then Red Hat turned out to be shitheads. Fuck it. Gentoo.
Uwuntu :3
The kawaiest OS on the market
NixOS or Debian. Don’t install Ubuntu or Arch on your work computer.
Legit question - why not Ubuntu?
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 never used it for a personal desktop environment.
Then it might be nice to start off with whatever distro you were using so you’re familiar with the package manager and then just get yourself a DE/WM (or Wayland compositor but I think Wayland isn’t quite far enough to start off with yet although I’ve only used Hyprland) that you’ll be happy with. Then when you’ve gotten used to everything it’s much easier to try out new stuff.
Go to the deep end with NixOS!
Hannah Montana Linux
Debian with XFCE. Lightweight, clean and stable.
Can’t beleive that Uwuntu didn’t come up…
Openwrt
Fedora with KDE.
