what linux distro?

Also I should probably mention that I want to get into coding sooner or later a distro that is good with that aswell?

>>60263877
Linux Mint
also if you have an AMD card just switch back to Windows, you'll waste your time because gaming is shit on AMD Linux

I'm using Elementary and it's awesome. It looks great out of the box and it's very easy to use.

The distro doesn't have to be like Arch btw that's just one of the distros i've seen quite often on ricing threads and recommended.

>>60263905
I'm on Intel but I have a seperate laptop for gaming so I'll be fine. Maybe I'll try Mint but I'm going to wait on more suggestions to decide.

>>60263877
but before using Linux Mint make sure to verify the ISO's checksum, you should do this for every distro btw.

>>60263877
use ubuntu gnome

>>60263877
I also advice Linux Mint, has good presets

>>60263905
this. Don't listen to others

>>60263877
The differences between distros are pretty small. The largest ones are the default software it ships with and package management. Arch, Gentoo etc come with very minimal default packages, so you have to know what you're doing if you want to use those (there are guides you can follow to install and configure everything, but it doesn't make sense to jump to the deep end when you have no Linux experience). Different Debian and Red Hat based distros (Ubuntu variants, Mint etc) would be a safe bet, since they're easy to maintain and come with sane defaults.
I'd recommend checking out different Ubuntu variants (vanilla, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Mint) on Live CD to see test different desktop environments and go with whatever you like the most.

>>60263877
Arch is definitely not newbie friendly. Well at least not the installation and ricing part. I would suggest Manjaro (Arch like, has separate repository) or Antergos (basically an Arch installer) as an alternative. Pacmam is still my favorite package manager, so I would recommend Arch or those mentioned.

>>60264858
>>60263877
Also, it may surprise you and others to hear but I've had generally much less issue with Arch than other popular Distros like Ubuntu, Debian or Fedora mostly because of their excellent straight to the point wiki which DESU is the best place to get help for ANY distro.

>>60264900
The wiki is one of the things that keeps pulling me back into Arch.
That thing is so good

>>60265052
only the wiki, any netinstall has probably the same advantages but none of the flaws

>>60263877
xubuntu

>>60263877
I am using Debian Gnome. It took too fucking long to install even on my SSD but I never had to install anything else since it comes packed with a lot of software out of the box. 10/10 would recoomend.

>>60263877
ubuntu and linux mint are the most newbie friendly

>>60263877
Linux Lite if your PC is shit, KDE Neon if it isn't.
ZorinOS if you have a boner for windows.

>>60263877
PClinuxOS

>>60263877
manjaro, then when you're ready, arch

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