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[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Distro doesn’t really matter too much. Just don’t get some obscure distro that no one has heard of before.

Plus it’s pretty common for newbies to jump around to test out different distros anyway.

Most of the time, the differences you will see are just desktop environment.

After you have used Linux for some time, then you will understand the major differences between the distros other than the way they look.

If you have any questions about Linux feel free to send me a DM. I’m always happy to help.

[–] neograymatter@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 6 hours ago

Surprisingly for a choice that I realize doesn't really matter, it still ends up burning alot of time researching.

Intially looked at Bazzite, which seemed great other than I wasn't a fan of it immutability, I've had to remove the read-only property from my steam deck a few times.

Then I looked at CatchyOS/Arch, decided to avoid that as I know I'm too lazy to read notes every update, and while I don't mind tinkering and fixing stuff.. I want it to be on my schedule lol.

Avoiding Debian, my server currently runs it, but I remember it giving me headaches installing older JREs on it to run modded minecraft servers.

So I'm going to try OpenSuse, not for any real valid reason other than the last time I tried Linux as my daily driver ( 2004/2005) it was the first distro that worked smoothly without any driver headaches.