Linux Beginners Guide: What is the Best Linux Distro?

A short explanation of how to pick your first distro based on what you need from it. A guide for new users to linux

[@Mantikal]

Thanks for this. I'm not alone in this opinion - It's probably a better move for newbies to do: - a hard and honest self-assessment of what they currently spend their time doing now on their Windows setup.What type of apps do they consistently use? - Do research to find out which open source versions of those apps (which will have completely different names and creators) give them roughly the same results - Spend time watching YT videos on how to master all those new apps Then they can get into what you covered here - and will continue to add on to it. The other item is that Linux isn't just an OS. It's another Universe of how things work and major players. It's also another culture - the noobs will find that part out when they start posting in the forum of the Distro that they decided to go with.. The first item they'll have to get used to is that there will be no tech support phone numbers available to call when the SHTF with their chosen distro. They usually won't get the help they need instantly - like with a legit purchased copy of Windows. They will have to put in some work and have patience. A lot of those forum members will in essence ask this question of them - "So um, what did YOU already do to try and solve YOUR problem?" They'll want to see that they got involved in their own solution. Also, Arch (the original - not the spinoffs), I would put in the Hard category. It's a safe bet that the noobs won't know how to pull various deep hidden internal components of an OS over the internet as they assemble it - layer by layer from scratch - with just a black screen and a command prompt and finally chose which desktop environment to put on as window dressing.

[@LowTechLinux]

Very well said. Thank you for that

[@WilliamBradford-xp9hz]

My favorite hands down is Debian and my second favorite is Parrot OS.

[@Toxikuu]

as someone who's run both gentoo and lfs, i recommend gentoo

[@bobgoldham69]

LFS was never meant as a "distribution" in the sense of "something you might use". It's an exercise in learning how a linux system works and what different components exist in there and their function. Gentoo is a full linux distribution and I've been using it very happily for a long while :)

[@LowTechLinux]

Your LFS comment actually makes good sense. Thank you for that

[@user-ul2eo1in1z]

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