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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?

#asknostr #linux #recommendations
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BaleNorge 5mo ago 💬 1

go with nixos such a great os with reproducibility easy to rollback if something goes wrong and use gitea server for backing up configuration files. remember to use different midules and flakes is better. but ubuntu at beginner level nix is steep learning curve.

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The Beave 5mo ago

I think the learning curve of this is not what I'm looking for right now, but it is on my radar to experiment with later.