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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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Terry Yiu 5mo ago 💬 1

Ubuntu Mate. This is basically GNOME 2 UI from like ~10 years ago, before Ubuntu decided to make their distributions shinier. But I love it. Not sure if it meets your cool criteria.

https://ubuntu-mate.org

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The Beave 5mo ago

It might not be cool, but I still don't know exactly what I consider cool in linux yet. LOL! Thanks!

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