hey nerds, I’m getting myself a new personal laptop as a treat, but I very much do not want windows 11 shitting it up. Is there a linux distro with caveman-compatible instructions for installation and use? I want to think about my OS as little as possible while actually using it.

I’ve got one friend who uses mint, but I’ve also seen memes dunking on it so who knows. I actually really only know what I’ve seen from you all shitposting in other communities

  • Noble Bacon@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    This is quite a rabbit hole you are getting yourself into, but to keep it short and relatively simple, you need to figure out something very important beforehand:

    • Do you want a rolling release or a stable distro?

    I’m assuming that, you are not yet familiar with these terms, so let’s go with the stable distros.

    You have a lot of options here, most of them will all be based of Ubuntu, which is based in Debian, so let me drop a few generally good suggestions in no particular order:

    • Linux Mint
    • MX Linux
    • ZorinOS
    • PopOS
    • Fedora, (This one is not a stable distro, but you should be good with it)

    Either of these is a good starting point. If down the road you feel like they stop fitting your needs, start exploring the big three, (Debian, Fedora and Arch Linux).