Replying to Avatar The Beave

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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mobiusmoe 5mo ago

Skip to the end of your distro journey & look at nixos+kde-plasma.

There is a learning curve to set up your config, but its a day tops and AI can help trouble shoot it.

You only need to learn it once, then you have an immutable os which can roll back and a small text file you can use to replicate your set-up on any new machine almost instantly.

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