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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 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 63 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is obviously the only correct answer.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 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 5 months ago (3 children)

Mint. It's dead simple and works great.

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

Congratulations!

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

60 minutes. We have a winner.

Downloading the ISO now.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 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 5 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 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 29 points 5 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 5 months ago

Fair, I did miss that requirement

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 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 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The kawaiest OS on the market

[–] [email protected] 48 points 5 months ago

Hannah Montana Linux

[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago (16 children)

Go to the deep end with NixOS!

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

Suicide Linux

If you mistype a command your distro gets destroyed.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Linux from Scratch

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 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 5 months ago

Install Gentoo, feel the burn!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 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 5 months ago

Fedora with KDE.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

Debian with XFCE. Lightweight, clean and stable.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Red Star OS

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 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 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

UWUNTU , linux mint or fedora

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

FreeBSD.

because, why not?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 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 5 months ago

Fedora Atomic, choose whatever DE you like.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Suicide Linux

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Arch Linux plssssss

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