Machine is a HP ENVY x360 Convertible 15-eu1xxx with the touch screen. Ryzen 7 5825U, touch screen 16gb RAM.
Top recommendation of within one hour of me posting this decides what distro I install. Please not Hannah Montana linux or even worse, Arch.
I leave the decision up to you.
Edit:
The winner was linux mint. I’ve downloaded the ISO and am installing now. I hope my boss doesn’t get pissed.
Hannah Montana Linux
This is obviously the only correct answer.
I expect a screenshot of your desktop running it when you’re done polling this thread
Brb downvoting all the other OS ^^
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You gotta tell us what happened
Well technically Mint won. But don’t worry, you did get second runner up. Maybe next month?
Aw that’s okay, OP. This you btw?
Edit I am just kidding, hope you enjoy your new distro! :)
How? It got 100 votes less
I put a 1 hr limit on the game. At the one hour mark, Mint was still winning.
Mint. It’s dead simple and works great.
yep, mint always, if OP don’t like the mint looks i sugest them fedora atomic(silverblue or kinoite)
60 minutes. We have a winner.
Downloading the ISO now.
Idk if this is your first brush with Linux, I only recently had my own. Let us know if you need any help, but I promise that if you just follow the instructions, and you can, you’ll get through it. ChatGPT can also be useful for bridging small knowledge gaps in tech and IT.
I have bounced around a lot and found myself just wanting something stable with enough “newness” to still feel good. I started with mint and I ended on mint.
Definitely the best one directly following windows, and in my opinion best one overall.
Congratulations!
For a better touchscreen experience, try the Gnome Desktop. Some people hate it because …because people, but I love it on my exactly-same-but-not-same latitude 7389 (Arch BTW) and thinkpad 390 yoga (Debian).
I actually like the lack of endless customisation options ; I really just change the background, install the Cube and the Wobbly Windows and I’m back to work. Which I should be at right now, sigh.
I use touchscreen on kde plasma and it works fine. Firefox just needs some customizing
I’ve found it depends on version / distro. My Debian install of Firefox doesn’t feature gestures, which is frustrating all the more because the Epiphany browser has them. On Asahi, where it feels super natural on apple hardware, it woks excellently.
Now these gestures… I found myself swiping 2 fingers to go back in my file browser a lot recently and I don’t know if I come from the future or if I’m being a slightly uncoordinated smooth brain.
Its likely just a setting in about:config
Or install Firefox from the official deb repo, or from flathub
Mint’s cinnamon is gnome fork tho
Am I the only one kinda upset that it’s not referred to as ‘CinnaMint’?
Temple OS
This came way to close to winning. I don’t think it counts as a linux distro though.
Fair, I did miss that requirement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6HlbpczpDM
Its good to be king, maybe. But its a sad story.
It is a sad story. Keeping it in legendary meme status is the best way to remember it IMO.
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
https://www.piped.video/watch?v=V6HlbpczpDM
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
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Fedora Silverblue.
Atomic
The whole system is updated in one go, and an update will not apply if anything goes wrong, meaning you will always have a working computer.
Well having a working computer would be an improvement.
Debian Bookworm – yes, it’s boring – but that also means no surprises or gotchas – it just keeps truckin’ along
EDIT: if you ever do feel Arch-curious, start with EndeavourOS instead
Why endeavor? I recently tried arch for the first time and I’ve had a really great experience. It runs great on my raspberry pi 5, a device not actually supported by it. It actually feels and works a lot better than the two other distros that do officially support it: RPI OS and Ubuntu.
I don’t think there’s a good reason these days. With ArchInstall, the process is as easy as other distros and then all you have to do is install a DE and you’re all set. Arch used to have a much higher barrier to entry; that just doesn’t exist anymore.
So their reasoning may have been a graphical installer? I also wanted that but since I used a tutorial to get arch installed and working on my raspberry pi, I didn’t actually use a graphical installer and I didn’t miss it.
Linux from Scratch
Install Gentoo, feel the burn!
Openwrt
If you like how Mint looks, install Mint. If you prefer KDE or GNOME, install Fedora Silver blue or Kinoite.
I mean , I think people have suggested those already. You can upvote them if you please.
OpenSuse Tumbleweed
FreeBSD.
because, why not?
Debian testing.
Works great, I very very rarely have issues. Avoid updates for the month after the new stable and you’re good.
Steam OS!
I’d suggest something with KDE Plasma, such as Kubuntu or OpenSUSE or something.