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    Machine is a HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-eu1xxx with the touch screen. Ryzen 7 5825U, touch screen 16gb RAM.

    Top recommendation of within one hour of me posting this decides what distro I install. Please not Hannah Montana linux or even worse, Arch.

    I leave the decision up to you.

    Edit:

    The winner was linux mint. I've downloaded the ISO and am installing now. I hope my boss doesn't get pissed.

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    [–] [email protected] 261 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 63 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    This is obviously the only correct answer.

    [–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    I expect a screenshot of your desktop running it when you’re done polling this thread

    Brb downvoting all the other OS ^^

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    [–] [email protected] 134 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    Mint. It's dead simple and works great.

    [–] [email protected] 64 points 10 months ago (5 children)
    [–] [email protected] 14 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    For a better touchscreen experience, try the Gnome Desktop. Some people hate it because ...because people, but I love it on my exactly-same-but-not-same latitude 7389 (Arch BTW) and thinkpad 390 yoga (Debian).

    I actually like the lack of endless customisation options ; I really just change the background, install the Cube and the Wobbly Windows and I'm back to work. Which I should be at right now, sigh.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (3 children)

    I use touchscreen on kde plasma and it works fine. Firefox just needs some customizing

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    Congratulations!

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    [–] [email protected] 18 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

    60 minutes. We have a winner.

    Downloading the ISO now.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    Idk if this is your first brush with Linux, I only recently had my own. Let us know if you need any help, but I promise that if you just follow the instructions, and you can, you'll get through it. ChatGPT can also be useful for bridging small knowledge gaps in tech and IT.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

    yep, mint always, if OP don't like the mint looks i sugest them fedora atomic(silverblue or kinoite)

    [–] [email protected] 77 points 10 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    yeah it was withing 3 votes of winning but here's hoping

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    [–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    This came way to close to winning. I don't think it counts as a linux distro though.

    [–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

    Fair, I did miss that requirement

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (2 children)
    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

    It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.

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    [–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    The kawaiest OS on the market

    [–] [email protected] 48 points 10 months ago

    Hannah Montana Linux

    [–] [email protected] 43 points 10 months ago (16 children)

    Go to the deep end with NixOS!

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    [–] [email protected] 40 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (5 children)

    Debian Bookworm – yes, it’s boring – but that also means no surprises or gotchas – it just keeps truckin’ along

    EDIT: if you ever do feel Arch-curious, start with EndeavourOS instead

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    [–] [email protected] 39 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    Suicide Linux

    If you mistype a command your distro gets destroyed.

    [–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago
    [–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Can’t beleive that Uwuntu didn’t come up…

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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 10 months ago

    Linux from Scratch

    [–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)
    [–] [email protected] 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    Atomic

    The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.

    Well having a working computer would be an improvement.

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    [–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago

    Install Gentoo, feel the burn!

    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 13 points 10 months ago

    How 'bout you decide for yourself? Despite what highschool and webster's dictionary suggest, what's popular has no bearing on what's right. In fact, what's popular has occasionally turned out to be Very Wrong.

    [–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

    Fedora with KDE.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

    Debian with XFCE. Lightweight, clean and stable.

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

    Red Star OS

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (7 children)

    NixOS or Debian. Don't install Ubuntu or Arch on your work computer.

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    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

    UWUNTU , linux mint or fedora

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
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    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

    If you like how Mint looks, install Mint. If you prefer KDE or GNOME, install Fedora Silver blue or Kinoite.

    [–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

    I mean , I think people have suggested those already. You can upvote them if you please.

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

    FreeBSD.

    because, why not?

    [–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    THERE ARE FIVE LIGHTS Linux

    Or just go NixOS so you may continue some amount of torment

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    [–] only0218 8 points 10 months ago

    Fedora Atomic, choose whatever DE you like.

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    Suicide Linux

    [–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago

    Arch Linux plssssss

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