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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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Valravn Crafts 5mo ago 💬 1

Running Ubuntu on two machines, also using FreeCAD. Not great not terrible. Snaps from canonical are a pain (prepare to have first run loading times 5+sec and cluttered ram afterwards) you can get rid of them but at that point it's probably better to just go with Debian if you're not after bleeding edge stuff.

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The Beave 5mo ago

I'm definitely not after bleeding edge, and load times are annoying, but . . . I grew up waiting for floppies to load, so pretty much anything from the last 20 years is fast enough for me. LOL!