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If you going to install Linux, install something basic like Ubuntu, fedora, mint and pop is!
Now tons of people will start searching for cachyos, because the vegre did.
I'm not going to dwell on how annoying it is that it took people THIS LONG to get off the Windows train. I'm just happy to see the world changing for the better.
Welcome to civilization, new Linux users!
Probably due to gaming. Its amazing I can get adult foreign novel games to work on Linux through proton. It just works nowadays when back in the day, you had to tinker with wine and winetricks for so long. That was the last hurdle for me to overcome the barrier of using Linux.
What's the easiest and most secure linux distro for a non-techie? This is for a spare thinkpad I want to try linux on.
Mint is great, but if you have a touchscreen ThinkPad like I do and actually like to use the touchscreen a lot, Mint is very hit or miss.
I installed Fedora with Gnome and it works beautifully with the touchscreen.
I'd you want an it just works version, I recommend Fedora Plasma.
Whoa, surprised this is coming from The Verge. Is it really the year of the Linux desktop now??
When will it be the year of actually being able to read articles?
Linux has been great for me for over 20 years, but the damn internet continues to get worse.