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What's the best distro for a windows user with some linux experience (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Original question by @[email protected]

I have used linux in a past job (I did not set it up), so im not a total noob with linux. But I am far from an expert. I bought a tablet that had a flavor of linux on it and found myself woefully unprepared trying to navigate the tablet. I was planning to use it for DnD for pdf reading, but it apparently wasn't capable of that bcz it was a rather custom OS. With windows 10 support being dropped by Microsoft in the next few months, I want to transition my desktop to Linux, and I thought I'd get a headstart on that. I have a windows 11 laptop (and I hate it), but im kinda stuck with it for now. So, in the spirit of I am a noob who isn't quite a noob, what do ya'll recommend? p.s. I used Ubuntu for a bit way way back in high school

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Fedora Kinoite.

KDE Plasma (very Windows-ey) and it is "immutable" which means you can't break it.

Someone else said Kubuntu which aesthetically will look the same and is also a good choice but if you want to start with a "just works" I recommend an immutable distro.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Except network scanning is the furthest thing from "just works" on atomic fedora based distros. That is an essential usecase for many or most people.

I like fedora atomic and I run bazzite, but can't break is quite different than "just works" in my opinion.

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