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Since I bought a new laptop, I'll need to install linux on it. (I may not bother installing windows on it at all.)

I have used Linux Mint and Pop!_OS (The dumbest OS moniker ever, IMO). Pop has been wearing thin. Mint was stable but not exactly . . . cool? Inspiring? And also just another debian fork.

If you were to recommend to me a flavor of linux, what would it be? I am NOT a dev, I don't game, and I mostly just complain on nostr, surf, and use freecad on occasion. I would like to eventually be able to run more local nostr stuff. I do not need to do anything too heavy with graphics of compute as I will never run an LLM on the laptop directly. If my T420 wasn't literally falling apart and costing more to fix than a new used laptop, I would be totally fine with it forever.

So . . . Whatcha got?

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The Beave 5mo ago

I think I've zapped everyone I could with a suggestion.

Anyone else want to weigh in?

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Anthony Accioly 5mo ago

Too many people already commented and I'm a bit lazy to read it all... I would just, say keep it Vanilla to start. Mint is not bad and it's what I recommend for most folks. Other than that Fedora works pretty well. Linux folks like to send users straight to rolling releases, but I would spend some time with a more traditional distro, figure out what desktop environment and window manger you like, etc. I spent some time in openSUSE and Arch, both are brilliant but I would still pick SUSE for a rolling release.