Thx in advice.
Zorin
They probably want updates
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Just make sure to install the 3rd party nonfree media codecs at installation for video to work out if the box. Also recently released Nvidia GPUs might have some bugs with Wayland ime
I’ve put kubuntu on a couple of machines now and I’m pretty happy with it.
Fedora atomic GNOME or KDE
Pop_OS or Linux Mint. Both just work. The Atomic idea is nice, but still too soon for complete beginners or the lazy (not a pejorative).
I think your best bet for this is one of the spinoffs of enterprise Linux: fedora or openSUSE. both are very solid ootb, and have starting configurations that are generally good.
The microos or silverblue variants respectively are really promising as well, but still have some caveats.
Fedora is not an enterprise Linux spinoff, it is an upstream to an enterprise Linux distribution. Neither of those support proprietary video codecs and other potentially patent encumbered pieces out of the box, with some work for proprietary drivers too.
Is that so? I can remember a option on install to download proprietary stuff. I think that means codecs?
I am not saying that you are wrong just asking if you are sure.
That option is in Ubuntu and works as you expect it to.
Fedora has an option to enable third party repositories. Those are extremely limited.
Enabling all of rpmfusion or packman on opensuse is still work and even more work in the immutable distributions.
I’ve used both, and the only third party repo I’ve enabled was tailscale. I’ve not had any issue with needing codecs in anything I’ve Installed through the discover app. I’ll admit that I don’t have an Nvidia card, so I don’t know how good support is ootb there (though iirc, at least openSUSE has a separate installer that include Nvidia drivers)
You likely have and not noticed. Hardware rendering even with the Intel iGPU requires them. Just means things are not as performant or efficient as they could be, and more power usage, as your cpu is doing the rendering instead.
For example: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firefox_Hardware_acceleration#Configure_VA-API_Video_decoding_on_AMD (this references Firefox but applies to most video players)
The patents have routinely caused headaches. For years (2017) neither one could play mp3s and only recently have they gotten support for proper subpixel rendering. The mp3 (and dvd) thing was a big reason people used Ubuntu instead for a long time.
Q4OS, a more user-friendly version of Debian.
Sounds pretty solid but dont use Trinity lol.
I think Plasma is the default desktop environment now, but I still use Trinity because it was the only DE in older versions and I’m so used to it.
this is why I read through threads like this. looks cool.
That’s a nice OS! Never heard of it before, but it looks like it delivers exactly what ir promises.
What in the world…
What’s the problem?
I use fedora for the nice OOTB experience, but if there’s issues with parts of the hardware - I try Ubuntu. And I’d it works, I just install it.
Life’s too short to deal with hardware blobs.
If anything shouldn’t Ubuntu not work? Fedora runs the regular kernel while Ubuntu runs the Ubuntu kernel
Ubuntu and its derivatives are quite solid. My favorite ispopOsS which has grown to have a nice identity for itself.
just installed bazzite and after switching to x11 (one button thing) its the first district to have no screen tearing, no stutter
though this is a very gaming focused district, so maybe not for you
its derived from universal blue so maybe check that out
And a non-gaming focused equivalent would be Bluefin.
For me it is Fedora
It depends of your definition of “hassle”.
I have 2 screens, I like to have the same panel on each screen, so when I use one in fullscreen, I can use the other one. So far, the only Desktop Environment that can give me that without too much difficulties, is KDE (even if I had to do it manually).
If you have the same use, maybe Kubuntu is a great choice. Tuxedo OS would be the same as Kubuntu, but you don’t have to change the priority of the package manager, because the snaps are already disabled. ( they got another load of malicious softwares in the snapstore recently, and some snap might not be as good as .deb or flatpak).
If not, Linux Mint is an out of the box distribution. If your hardware is the most recent one, they have a “edge iso”.
Don’t know which one to recommend but I would never recommend Ubuntu. It is full of bugs to me. I used it for years without issues but now it is impossible for me. Installed it on my girlfriend’s laptop recently and she has the same bugs I had years ago when I dropped it : network disconnects randomly and she has to reboot, bluetooth won’t reconnect sometimes… I can help but it is definitely not working out of the box for users who are not into tech.
I believe I’m going for Ubuntu LTS or Linux Mint(I don’t know exactly which version) what did you say about it?
Never tried Mint. If you try it, tell me how good or bad you think it is ! 😊
If you use CJK input methods, I would suggest Fedora which it has the simplest way to add a input
If you want an elaborated answer you will have to share the hardware you want to install it on.
