Linux Distro

mint

fedora

>>57707232
install macOS

Solus

gentoo+kevinnet

As a former Windows babby myself that picked Mint as his first distro, I must say it's been real good to me, so I suggest Mint.

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>>57707232

Kubuntu, >>57707235 Mint is fine too.

KDE and Cinnamon (what Mint has) are very Windows-like, I'd argue that KDE is slightly more Windows-like. KDE Plasma is fantastic and Ubuntu has the best software repository of all distros, so I like Kubuntu.

Kubuntu and Mint are great because they have good software repositories. I've fucking had it with Debian's shit, between Debian's old software and lack of drivers, it's trash.

>>57707247
Fedora has a bad software repository. RPM Fusion makes it tolerable, but using non-official software repositories is gross.

>>57707232
Ubuntu MATE

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>>57707232
Q4OS or Zorin OS if you're a fag.

Debian or Fedora if you're a man.

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Antergos

TempleOS

>>57707235
Spent all day yesterday dealing with Mint's inability to work with gtx 1060. FUCK!

Debian

>>57707311
second

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>>57707369
>nvidia

Xubuntu or kubuntu

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Void Linux.

https://voidlinux.eu

It'll make a fucking IBM X60 run like a charm.

>>57707307
>non-official software repositories
im not sure what you mean by this. just download the fusion repos and install whatever else in the terminal.

Manjaro
openSUSE Tumbleweed

>>57707401

Arch is better

Mint or Ubuntu if you're just getting into Linux.

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>>57707414

Arch is not fucking better.

>Void has a convenient installer that doesn't treat you like a child, but understands that you can't spend three hours setting up ethernet
>Void uses based xbps and not packshit
>SYSTEMD-FREE (runit)
>wonderful repos

>>57707232
Linux Mint
Linuxlite
LXLE
Pinguy

>>57707472

Installation is simply a case of following instructions, the OP might not be as dense as you and the process should take <1 hour.

Pacman is an excellent package manager, and is certainly not worse in any objective way

Systemd is memed as being bad

Even considering using repos as an argument AGAINST arch says a lot here.

I think you're very wrong friendo.

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>>57707307
>I've fucking had it with Debian's shit, between Debian's old software and lack of drivers, it's trash.

Works on my machine.

>>57707232
>>57707232
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.
Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.
There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

Check out DistroWatch and read up on some distros. Download some ISOs, install them as VMs, and play around with them.

I recommend giving Antergos a look. It's basically easy-to-use Arch.

I've tried Ubuntu in the past. Ubuntu's unity interface wasn't very stable.

>>57707696
Unity is garbage. Ubuntu MATE is better.

Zorin

GENTOO+CLANG+MUSL+LIBRESSL+ZEN-KERNEL

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>>57707843
>Zorin

I really like switching from Windows 7 to Kubuntu. Plasma 5 has some problems but overall it's pretty nice and user friendly.

centos 6

>>57707356
the only serious answer

>>57707232
(͟Y͟o͟u͟)

>>57707232
I want to fuck tux. Please tell me there is tux 34

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>>57707232

any linux distro that comes with gnome

ubuntu gnome
fedora

avoid opensuse(mpv doesn't work on it and the application menu won't turn on)
avoid regular ubuntu (comes with unity. ugly as shit)
avoid solus(budgie is ugly as fuck)
avoid manjaro(the system settings suck)

>>57707232
Mint for stable, Antergos for fresh, Fedora for somewhere in between.

>>57707342
>>57707638
only reasonable answers itt

>>57708545
Why is gnome a objectively superior interface?

>>57708585
Is is the poweruser interface.

If you need menus, you are not a poweruser. If you spend more time ricing your interface than you do actually working, you are not a poweruser.

>>57707472
What kind of moron can get ethernet setup in under 10 min

>>57707232
Linux lite

>>57707232
Qubes or Subgraph for security. Both are very different though

I am considering dual-booting and going back to Linux one of these days, I installed Ubuntu (and riced it) but I got bored of it and deleted.

Some things that I need to straighten out first though. I never had any issues with drivers or anything like that but how would dual-monitors work with Ubuntu?

Also how would the Logitech G403 work with it? I am assuming it shouldn't have an issue.

And finally last time I deleted Linux messed up my Windows boot and had to do some trouble shooting to make it work again.
I have a second HDD that I use to store my games. If I made a partition of lets say 100GB and I decide to delete Linux will I have any issues to boot into Windows?

>>57708617
I'm noob. Can you explain what is a poweruser?

if you are new to linux, is Mint Linux cinnamon a good option.

>>57708650
someone who actually gets work done on their machine

basically nobody browsing /g/

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>>57708585

>Why is gnome a objectively superior interface?

it's simple.
It looks clean.
You don't have all these unnecessary options all over the package manager

>>57708688
Would you recommend Gnome shipped with Debian or getting another more "Stable" distribution and installing Gnome?

>>57708745

i would recommend a linux distro that comes with gnome because if you download one that doesn't it might not be stable.

>>57707342
Looks really nice anon

How'd you do it?

antergos

>>57708774

stable after installing gnome on it*

Whatever you do, don't install Antergos. Everything is better than it (except for mint)

>>57708688
That applications drop-down menu is garbage. Why would you even use it? It doesn't even have type to search, something that's a standard in all modern operating systems.

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fedora

Ubuntu! although you can try out a lot through Virtual Machines to see which ones you like most

>>57707472
>3 hours setting up ethernet
it works out of the box. maybe you're thinking of gentoo

>>57709476
>except for mint
?

>>57707232
Xubuntu

is openSUSE any good?

>>57707232
ubuntu mate. Pretty bullshit free distro and looks good.

>>57707235
Yea, this one.

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Ubuntu Unity

Compiz shits on all other WM/Compositors.

>>57713934
What icon theme do you use?

>>57707369
It you can't figure it out, you aren't going to on any other distro than Ubuntu perhaps.

>>57707472
It's literally dhcpcd [[INTERFACE]]. Are you, by chance, retarded?

>>57708545
>Gnome
>Applications can't maximize to global bar
>Wasted space on every window incl firefox
>Hardware acceleration destroys battery on laptops
>Ugly as fuck interface requiring exclusive gtk for shell instead of global skin like Unity

Yeah no thx

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>>57714523
Paper

>>57708645
Fuck dual booting, use a VM. You don't even know why you want to dual boot. VMs. what are they? Fucking mongs wants moar partitions and less convenience. VMs are good enough for entrerprise, y u no use?

>>57708688
why Fedora though? Why not Debian, Arch, Ubuntu or anything else with Gnome?

>>57707232
Why do you want to use loonix when you can use Unix?
FreeBSD is your choice!

>>57714523
Paper

>>57715243
fedora is the best distro to use if you want gnome. best intergration of it to date, similar to opensuse for kde.

>>57715437
yeah and I was asking why he picked Fedora instead of other distros with Gnome

>>57707342
can you share that wallpaper?

>>57707232

I don't want to get political, but I would suggest familiarizing yourself with the systemd controversy before choosing a GNU/Linux distribution, as most major distributions have adopted systemd and don't present the user with any alternative. Also, you might consider using a BSD-based distribution instead, in which case that's not even a concern.

Since I'm assuming you're not terribly familiar with GNU, I would guess you want a distribution that's easy to install and is mostly pre-configured. So I would recommend looking into any of the following distributions that are not systemd-based:

Salix OS - Most recommended for someone with little experience with GNU/Linux. You can download Salix with a variety of desktop environments or window managers installed, and there are live DVD images with your choice of Xfce or MATE. I would recommend grabbing the MATE live DVD. This will boot you into a graphical environment and give you a GUI installer to make things a lot more simplified.

Zenwalk - I don't care for Xfce, and that's the only DE Zenwalk gives you right out of the box. I don't believe there's a live image anywhere, so you'll have to install and partition through a series of dialogs.

GhostBSD - Pretty sure the images are live, so again, you should have a straightforward GUI for installing the system.

>>57708617
Why do GNOME 3 shills keep talking about productivity when even Linus Torvalds called it a user experience design failure?

>>57716563
because they share a different opinion to torvalds'

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>>57707232
Korora

Sorry, shot is a month old.

>>57715803
To offer a counterpoint to avoiding systemd, there is a reason it is so widely adopted. Its primary sin is simply not adhering to the Unix philosophy, by being a big monolithic piece that many components and applications depend on. Other than that, there are a few design quibbles. It is still free software.

It is a comprehensive, robust, and extremely capable init system built specifically for Linux. It can be seen as a major step towards Linux maturing into its own very capable operating system, independent of the baggage of the Unix world which might have deserved a re-evaluation. RMS has no real gripes with it, the only people whining to the moon and back are old Unix diehards.

Fedora and other operating systems which use systemd still respect your freedoms while giving you an excellent desktop OS, with many thanks to systemd for making it possible.

>>57716769
You forgot to mention the meme that the NSA has their fingers in systemd. Though it's not impossible...

>>57716801
If they do, then all open source software may as well have the NSA's tentacles in it. I'd trust nothing at that point.

>>57716826
the NSA uses linux, systemd & selinux
it's in their best interest to have it as secure as possible

>>57716850
With their own backdoor, of course

>>57707307
Lack of drivers, old repos, if you want updated software on the testing branch it's buggier than Ubuntu and the installer is bugged to shit and slow as well. Install Ubuntu if you aren't a masochist.

>>57715123
Linux VM within Windows? Or a Windows VM within Linux?

>>57707302
/thread
if you need anything other than Debian, you're just a NEET ricer autist.

Don't do it brah

>>57717320
you actually need more time for pinning the repos on Debian, than configuring Arch or Gentoo

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>>57707232
Arch Linux:
>fast
>stable
>best Linux documentation ever

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>>57717501
>stable
kek
dont forget the tiny repos, unaudited AUR made by idiots and
>pic related

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>>57717552
Debian... Do you 'member when those filthy code monkeys introduced a security hole by patching OpenSSH?

>>57717354
This.
But I wouldn't recommend arch for your first Unix experience

>>57717552
I've honestly had a better experience with arch and its wiki then I ever had with the Debian wiki.

Debian is great for servers, but on a modern workstation, please no

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>>57717501
slackware is objectively the best

>>57717757
>Kernel 4.4.29
>the best

>>57717778
Enjoy your non-long-term edge kernel

>>57707632
M'kernel

>>57717855
I am enjoying it thoroughly.

>>57711915
It is good

>>57717320
>if you need anything other than Debian
Do you think Debian is better than Ubuntu? If so why?

whats the best distro for programming and being a productive member of society

>>57717757
>1h uptime
>logged in as root

maybe in your VM anon :^)

>>57717964
They're all the same. Distro choice is just about feelings. But when it's about coding they all provide emacs, xterm and make.

>>57717979
i logged in as root because my real name is my username. I didn't want it in the screenshot

>>57718009

USER=fag HOSTNAME=4chan.org screenfetch

Trisquel

>>57717964
Ubuntu, easiest/fastest to set up, update to date programs with low bugginess for how up to date their packages are.

>>57717320
I'm a ricer autist on Debian though.

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>>57707472
>void
>wonderful repos
KEK

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>>57707342
>taskbar on bottom

>>57717320
Debian doesn't even come with most wireless card drivers out of the box and the repo is out of date. It's got 80% of the issues a FOSS distro has but without any of the benefit.

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No joke. Gentoo is great.

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>>57720265
Holy shit, iam in front of my computer for 9 hours ..

>>57707259

This

>>57717662
Lol I went balls deep this week, got arch and formatted all windows from my disk, now I'm struggling with Nvidia/nouveau and bumblebee lol

>>57717354
>i'm constantly updating and installing packages like a ricer faggot instead of using the system

>>57707232
Protip: theres no such thing as good Linux distro

>>57719450
>Debian doesn't even come with most wireless card drivers out of the box and the repo is out of date. It's got 80% of the issues a FOSS distro has but without any of the benefit.

>dosen't even come with most wireless card drivers
>using anything other than base install on any distro
Just had to kek here

>repo is out of date
>oh no, my XXXX is one version behind, someone gonna haxor my loli collection
>I'm too dumb to change repos too

>FOSS
>Yes, I'm officially autistic

>benefit
>I need benefits from a hugely preconfigured distro because I want to get straight to ricing, I don't care about usability

>>57720562
Gg have fun, read the wiki.

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>>57707531
>Linuxlite
Trash
>LXLE
Trash
>Pinguy
Trash

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>>57707369
>install NVidia proprietary driver
>enable full pipeline compositing to get rid of tearing

How did you manage to fuck that up?

>>57707232
The only options are:

Do you want a binary distro with systemd? Solus.
Do you want a binary distro WITHOUT systemd? Gentoo with the getbinpkg feature.
Do you want a source based distro with or without systemd? Gentoo.
Do you want to make your own distro from scratch? Linux from Scratch.

>>57722574
Do you want Gentoo without the compile time? Arch.

>>57707232
If you want something stable without regarding good look, take Debian. If you want something good looking, easy to administrate with graphical tools, take openSUSE Leap.

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>>57707401
>>57707472
The actual kek

I’d just like to interject for a moment. What you’re refering to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/LInux, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called “Linux”, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine’s resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called “Linux” distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

https://www.linuxmint.com/download.php
and
https://www.kali.org/downloads/

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Elementary if you want shit to be easy and slackware if you can handle it

>>57707232
Install LFS

>>57707232
Not Gentoo or Arch unless you want to get memed.

Just go with Ubuntu MATE or Mint (inb4 memers).

>>57722503
Thanks you anon!!!

>>57715421
what
is
that
???

>>57715803
You forgot to mention the Devuan distribution, which is a fork made to avoid having the systemd problem in Debian.

Also a TL;DR of the issue is:
Too much danger of depending on it and the developers can come out with a hidden agenda to make RedHat and a few selected companies to control over a cascade of dependency which you can't escape if they decide to put a backdoor in the end, or have other devious ends.

Strange enough, this thread hosts a few good advises.

I'm impressed /g/.

Xubuntu