Looking to dip my toes into Linux for the first time. I have a 2016 Intel MacBook Pro with pretty solid specs collecting dust right now that I think I’m going to use. Research so far has indicated to me that the two best options for me are likely Mint or Elementary OS. Does anyone have any insight? Also open to other OS’s. I would consider myself decently tech savvy but I am not a programmer or anything. Comfortable dipping into the terminal when the need arises and all that.

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  • Pantherina@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    You will get very different opinions here. Important are what you want to do

    • are you okay with only Flatpak apps?
    • do you want a really stable Distro, or more up to date updates? Desktops evolve, but your hardware doesnt need that new kernels etc.
    • do you need a traditional distro for installing loads of stuff to it, or is an immutable Distro “enough”?
    • are you willing to reinstall or unbreak a traditional distro?

    I would recommend Fedora Kinoite. Install the official image or use the Ublue image. They are recent but checked updates, versioned, resettable, etc. With Fedora and lots of other distros you have automatic backups, if an update may break something.

    Its basically the future of Linux, at least for most use cases.

    PS: I literally broke evey other Distro, most of the recommended ones here.