How To Choose a Linux Distribution

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Chapters:

00:00 - Switching to Linux
00:52 - How to identify, what you want?
02:40 - Finding a Desktop Environment
03:12 - Finding the right Distribution
04:20 - Important things to consider
05:09 - Stable vs Unstable
06:40 - Conclusion

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[yogurtColombiano]

The hard part is not choosing, is staying in a distro. Thanks for sharing! :)

[LorenzodeSequera]

I opened up the Linux rabbit hole almost 2 years ago, because I bought a Dell ultrabook for productivity and light gaming. Unfortunately, it underperformed HORRIBLY under Windows while eating batteries. I considered turning it into a hackintosh, but ran into many dead ends. I then remembered about Linux as I had used Ubuntu in college 10 years ago, and was surprised to see how much progression there was after watching YT. I tried Pop OS, and it singlehandedly turned my laptop into a workhorse! Used it for a year, in conjunction with my main Windows desktop. I eventually switched to Linux Mint. I'm currently transitioning my workflow, hoping I can switch to Linux full-time!

[kalaherty]

I think another thing that's so obvious that it's easy to overlook/forget is that it's easy to make a bootable usb drive and play around with the OS from the usb, so I'd recommend that if a person has narrowed it down to 2 to 4 possibilities, if you have some spare USB drives, just download them and check them out. It helped me rule out a few pretty quickly when it came to my needs.

[zeckma]

From my perspective, my experience is just picking a distro will show you what you really need and/or want. I thought I wanted Garuda, but I wanted Arch. I thought I wanted Arch, but I really just wanted LFS. In my opinion, just choosing a distro will put you on the right path naturally (again, from my experience, my path was very linear).

[ordinaryhuman]

For someone coming from Windows, it's probably easiest to just pick a popular one suggested for beginners and then give that a shot. It'll probably be fine and you'll be able to do what you want. You're done.

If you run into serious problems like a needed application not working, that'd probably be a problem on other distos too. The distro choice wouldn't make a big difference. You might just be stuck with Windows for that stuff.

If after using your first choice you run into something that you don't like or you want something different (e.g. too many updates, not enough updates, not liking how the desktop looks), then look into an alternative distro that address whatever problem you've identified, and try that. Trying a different distro is probably just a waste of time though, unless you're setting up a new PC anyway and feel like trying something new.

[Montpelier-sama]

I was a former Linux Mint 21.1 user, I loved it so much. But I chose to stay with Ubuntu x Ubuntu Unity because the environment looks nice for me. I still need to stay longer with Ubuntu and see where it will take me after.

[bjarnehansen]

Went from Mint to Manjaro and am now with arch. And I dont think, that that will change in the foreseeable future :D

[RizalBoon]

I always try so hard to try other distributions, but I always ended up going back to Ubuntu. Even though it is not my favourite, it is the most convenient distro to setup things without getting things broken and it works most of the time.

[blueconcretezebra]

You're making this far too complicated. All that does is put Windows users off "Gah, it all too complicated, I'll stick with Windows". It's simple, if you have to ask "Which distro?" you need something that follows the user interface paradigms that Windows uses AND has a welcoming and tirelessly helpful community, so that a new user will be able to get the help they'll need. So Mint. Once someone has got their feet wet in Mint then they can use their experience to distro hop, but new users need to start with Mint AND the Mint forums.

[codingman]

Really liked the style of explaining, keep going up

[Clanps]

I switched from Windows 10 to Arch early last year and haven't regretted it at all.

[brads]

My journey continues to involve distro hopping. I've automated the post install configuration process to the point that it takes about an hour to get a distro running. For me, the distro doesn't really matter too much, I can make nearly any distro work how I want it to. My ADHD enjoys the hopping

[indus]

Very underrated video! Probably one of the very few that actually says it as it should be said: you basically have to try a few linux distros, whether or not in a vm first, before you can decide which one will be better suited for your needs. In my case, I tried several distros before landing on Ubuntu LTS anyway. My argument to pick the most popular distro is based on how 'good' I consider myself at working linux, which isn't all that great but improving, hence I went for the distro that has the most community-powered information available. When I inevitably run into an issue, I know I have the mother load of available information to find a solution to my problem and to learn from the likely mistakes that I made at first. I wouldn't have known this about Ubuntu if I hadn't tried several other distros and, while running into issues, finding myself get redirected to Ubuntu user forums and find solutions to issues I wasn't having in Ubuntu.

[arthuradriaens]

I wouldn't call the other side of the "stable" distributions the "unstable" distributions, I'd just call them what they are: rolling release distributions. I personally have been using arch for a couple of years now and as someone who codes quite a lot it's much easier to work with than debian stable as all software is always up to date (I used to use ubuntu in which I sometimes had version issues of softwares needing to work together, this doesn't happen on a rolling release distro)

[behudanoob]

Entered through Pop_OS, then to Ubuntu but gnome just wasn't for me so went to kubuntu then fedora KDE and at the end endeavour os kde

[swagmuffin]

When I started, I used ubuntu 20, then 22 after I broke it a month later, and popos 22 after that. I thought I was really good when I moved to Garuda because it's arch based, but it's also really good for a beginner. I think pop and Garuda would have been pretty easy to learn if I started with them. Other easy ones to set up are arco (the xl) and manjaro.

[jonaskeepauthor]

I am currently using fedora, although I used suse for many years (stopped with suse after leap was axed). I've always used rpm based distros not because I think it is any better than .Deb, but because I started on red hat Linux and mandrake.

[bertnijhof]

I'm on Ubuntu since 2008 and I never changed! However since 2009 I use Virtualbox to look at other distros, but I got tired of it. Now I delete all distros, that caused more than one problem or issue and I kept the ones without problems or issues. So in Virtualbox I have my most reliable distros, that survived years and those are: Manjaro; Fedora; Linux Mint; Zorin; Debian Stable and OpenSUSE Leap. I probably deleted ~15 other (fancy) distros.
My hardware is from 2019 based on a Ryzen 3 2200G.

[rntozlnk]

I sadly have to use windows cuz of all the schoolwork in which we are kinda forced to use proprietary software to do assignments. But I use linux on my seperate ssd and thanks to grub I can just switch to windows or linux. I am thinking on going linux only soon and use bottles or vm for windows stuff. I love linux and your channel is awesome bro. Keep up the good work!

[karunasagarprusty]

After my HDD died recently, installed an SSD. Upgraded Win10 to Win11, but something was missing. I do not know. It was too much distracting. Wanted something light and minimal. Tried so many distros before but never used as a primary OS. So I deleted the OEM Windows completely😂 and installed Linux Mint.