this post was submitted on 26 Sep 2026

72 points (100.0% liked)

Asklemmy

55652 readers

363 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy 🔍

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

Open-ended question
Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

Lemmyverse: community search
sub.rehab: maps old subreddits to fediverse options, marks official as such
!lemmy411@lemmy.ca: a community for finding communities

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_A@discuss.tchncs.de~

founded 7 years ago

MODERATORS

mekhos@lemmy.ml

14specks@lemmy.ml

72

If you were to install Linux on a laptop for someone, what distro would you use? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 2 days ago by wuphysics87@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

88 comments fedilink hide all child comments

My head tells me Linux Mint, but my heart says listen to your head. Why is this hard? 😂

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Likely either mint or popos

They tend to be the most liked by newcomers. Enough so that they don't miss windows, or want to try something else a week later.

[–] chahn.chris@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

I think popos definitely deserves mention here. Cosmic has come a long way in a short time and the nvidia support is really helpful.