Your PC can run any distro smoothly. What are you looking for that Mint doesn’t provide?
Personally, I'm looking for reproducible environments where if you create a lock file of your packages, you will get the exact same system on another machine if you copy it over
Maybe you would like an immutable distro such as Fedora Silverblue?
I'm already using NixOS, which is even more powerful since it can configure my software as well as my system
NixOS can do that.
That's why I'm on it :^)
Hannah Montana Linux
No way that actually exists lol
I'm using Fedora and I'm really happy with it. Pretty solid distro,
TempleOS
Holy shit! *literally
If you want to go for traditional distributions that don't have native rollback mechanisms, I would suggest using btrfs along with something like snapper.
I think the best way to decide is to fire up a bunch of VMs and install a distro on each. Going through the installation process for arch is a great way to start learning more about the OS IMO so if you're interested in that then that's a very beneficial thing to do anyway. I use Debian on my laptop and dual boot arch and Debian on my desktop. I've only ever used fedora for servers so I can't comment on how it serves as a daily driver. Here's a few distros I've used and recommend to try out. Debian Arch Manjaro ParrotOS(if you're into security) Centos
NixOS
Guix
Debian stable but be careful though, you might never leave after using it for a while :)
Right now I would go with Debian. Newish release. Everything is up to date, and they are quite stable.
I'm running Debian 12 on an Intel i5-2500K (integrated graphics) with 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD and it runs smooth and rock solid.
There are some really mixed answers here. I would stick to the mainline distros and not go for a fork with a few customizations. It does depend on what you want, especially if you are willing to learn using the terminal and if you want bleeding edge or more stability. My list would be:
Classic distro hop thread. Every distro is suggested. :)
I've been using Kubuntu on my gaming PC for a couple years, and Fedora on my laptop. They both work.
Try arch and you'll never distro hop again
I can't confirm that (I distro hopped to NixOS) I can confirm that Arch is a solid distro worth learning and will give you the skills to manage it long-term. Compared to Arch based distros like Manjaro, EndeavorOS and Garuda where people tend to screw up their install easily when installing the wrong packages from the AUR and updating with dependency conflicts.
I tried manjaro, it was a total mess after a few days of setting it up. Decided to just nuke it and go with arch and I've never looked back. Been 5 years now :)
I'm partial to Pop!_OS and their desktop environment.
I haven't really used Pop!_OS! yet, but I am getting a System76 laptop so I'll definitely check it out. I hope they get their Cosmic desktop out soon so they can differentiate their distro more instead of being another fork with a few customizations and default apps.
Pop!_OS is excellent. I came from Mac and Ubuntu and I have had an excellent experience. It can be as out-of-the-box or as customizable as you want. The support is superb. Everything works. Zero downside.
Tipps Fedora
How about your own distro? https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
This is giving me "just install gentoo" vibes
I moved to endeavours from Ubuntu and absolutely loving it. The arch back-end and simple management options are easy to use of you aren't afraid of the shell
openSUSE Leap
If you like Linux Mint, you might wanna try Feren, but it a bit bloated tho
Pop!Os
I love endeavourOS, can recommend
A good one for Arch Linux.
I installed Endeavour OS today and I'm liking it a lot.
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