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I have to disagree and agree.  

AGREED UBUNTU is what Linus should go with.  It is the most popular for a reason.  It is the closest you'll find to "it just works" without the possibility that exist with POP OS that it "just works"... on certain hardware.  (Unless Linus goes all in and just buys a Thelio system). 
 
Key and crucial is for his daily driver, as a new user he should go not for the most cutting edge release but for the latest LTS release.  This means if he decides to build a new PC for it, some of the newest things might not work.  For example.  I was never able to get TB 3 to work on my old motherboard with Ubuntu LTS.  Yet TB4 works like a charm with Ubuntu 21.04.*
 
Disagree.  Linus is a Windows user and should consider the variant of Ubuntu known as KUBUNTU.  Kubuntu uses the KDE desktop and is very Windows like in all the good ways while clearly being its own thing.  The standard Gnome desktop of Ubuntu is very much MacOS like.  Kubuntu has just as much support as Ubuntu and is an official release not just a community project.   It has all the tools he needs in a fully integrated desktop look and feel. 
 
For a browser MS Edge for Linux does everything like it was on Windows.  
 
* A key point to make is that if Luke or Linus change distros that is not a fail on this challenge.  Linux users "distro hop" all of the time.  So @GabenJr  you might want to advise them to set up their /Home on a separate drive from their OS drive.  This way if they decide they hate whatever distro they start with, all is not lost.   Lots of Linux users do that.  Also let them RTFM like the rest of us did.  That's part of the joy of using Linux. 

 

As someone who uses and helps develop Fedora Linux, I was really sad and hurt to hear @LinusTechcompletely laugh off Fedora Linux as if it was ludicrous. As one of the folks who helps develop Fedora Linux and uses it as a daily driver specifically for desktop and gaming, I was really shocked to hear that neither Linus nor @Slick would even consider it.
 
In the past year alone (with Fedora 33 and 34), we've done a ton of work around the desktop and gaming:
Btrfs by default with zstd transparent compression to simplify storage and improve I/O performance Swap on ZRAM, desktop process resource reservation, and adding systemd-oomd to improve responsiveness in situations with low memory and high memory pressure DXVK for Fedora Wine to match Proton for non-Steam Windows games (and non-games!) Adding thermald to improve thermal and Intel CPU performance for ultrabooks and other laptops Routing all audio through PipeWire to simplify audio and improve the quality of life for pro-audio setups And with the upcoming Fedora 35 (releasing at the end of the month, beta out now), we've got a bit more in the pipe:
Adding power-profiles-daemon to extend battery life and enable easy power management flexibility Using a shim library to have old SDL1 games use SDL2 to improve game performance and compatibility with newer technologies Easier user third-party repository enablement to easily access third-party software like Steam, Google Chrome, and the NVIDIA driver Select Flatpaks from Flathub made available so stuff like Zoom, Discord, etc. are all just a click away Even with that, there's more coming down the pipe in the future, as Red Hat and the community work with folks like Valve, NVIDIA, and others to make the desktop and gaming awesome. Christian Schaller (the manager for the Red Hat Desktop team), wrote a blog post about what his team is working on for improving Fedora Workstation. He's written plenty of blog posts about the state of things and where his team is working to move things.

I wish they would consider using Fedora Linux, because I think we've done a stellar job trying to make an awesome easy to use Linux desktop and I think they'd love the stuff we've done to make gaming on Linux awesome.

I tried to comment this on YouTube, but it keeps deleting my comments so I have to post here:
 
As a (Fedora) linux user I would say pick RHEL and Fedora (or Manjaro or PopOS)
 
My personal choice is Fedora, but I see a plenty of reasons using PopOS or Manjaro. EDIT: after writing this "comment" I watched the rest of the wan show, and I trust Anthony at picking the best distros for them. 🙂
 
I really would like you to try Red Hat or SUSE technical support, since I haven't heard anyone trying them. It would be extremely interesting to hear some comments. Also an average user does not have Anthony at home so this support as a service will replace him partially. I picked RHEL, because it is more widely known, but SUSE is great distro too with a support team available.
 
Fedora is great choice, because it has really fresh packages and you can get the latest features of for example KVM there. There is huge community behind it, similar to Ubuntu, you can find solutions to almost any problems on their forums. Another reason to use Fedora is the Gnome, it is extremely close to stock Gnome (think it like clean android with no manufacturer customization which you would find in PopOS and Ubuntu). Fedora is also the choise of the Linux founder: Linus Torvalds as well as seemingly many LTT community Linux users. Fedora is one of the most polished and easy to use distro which actually has plenty of user customizability (in my opinion). @Conan Kudo mentioned plenty of other reasons, some of which I haven't tried.
 
PopOS is great option because it is Ubuntu based and to my knowledge it has quite new packages, not as fresh as Fedora but still. And System76 customizes Gnome quite heavily which is useful, but I do not like.
 
I do not have personal experience with Manjaro, but I expect ithas some greatness from Arch and also the risk of bricking things easily. Sure it would be the closest comparison to the Steam Deck.
 
I would not recommend Arch or Gentoo, because you have to figure so many things out before using them, and your experience would not be standardized like most new linux users have. You can customize other distros extremely well too, but it will be more interesting to see you using some distro which an average ex windows user would choose. The ability to pick and buid your distro is great but it isn’t useful to the viewers whose experience would be extremely different and again, an average person doesn't have Anthony helping them at home to fix their problems.
 
I would not pick Mint, yes it is fine distro, but it is based on Ubuntu, so no difference with other Ubuntu based distros and Mint has the oldschool Gnome. I do not see a reason to learn using that, because Gnome 41 is awesome I am just really subjective. Use Mint if you have specific reason to do so.
 
I would not pick Ubuntu either, because it is pushing Snap packages and Flatpak is used on almost every other distro. You can install Snaps on almost any distro, but the distro defaults do matter.

Linus mentioned that LMG would be running a FAH Work Server. 
It is now up and running - have a look at https://apps.foldingathome.org/serverstats, it is linus1.foldingathome.org. They did it!!! I started folding before Linus Media Group existed. This brings tears to my eyes. 

No, my email address has dots in it as well, and it works fine, so that ain't it. What Rosetta does though is check all incoming email addresses against the stopforumspam filter which may hold your email domain. Protonmail is one of the mail addresses that cannot be used there. You also can't use a VPN when signing up.
 
But a very simple solution if you haven't tried yet, is to make an account via BOINC Manager->Add project wizard. That doesn't get the rigorous check, as far as I know.

Hey I also have started R@H on my CPU with F@H on the GPU 

I did too. Seemed pretty good balance to run CPU for Rosetta and GPU for F@h.

Show rosetta@home some love too... Stick Rosetta@home on CPU and Folding@home on GPU's...

hey every one. i have come over from the f@h thread to introduce myself and let you know i have now joined the boinc team. i was struggling for wu's so i decided i would fold r@h whilst folding with f@h alongside  on my gpu.  

just dont kill it, many modern slim laptops have good specs and absolutely inadequate cooling.

Actually I've had more trouble in the past setting up Folding@Home due to OpenCL driver problems and other configuration issues. Setting up Rosetta@Home is much easier, just install BOINC, choose the Rosetta@Home project and log in/ register.  Also when switching to advanced view, the User interface seems better organized and easier to use than F@H, at least for my tastes.
 
I've been running BOINC / Rosetta for a couple of days and it consumes 1.81GB of storage, does not seem to be much of a problem. If it is, you can set limits in the settings on how much you allow it to use. You can also set memory usage limits, CPU usage limits and other options.
 
F@H currently has enormous amount of contributors, but Rosetta has many many times less. Seems to me if F@H is struggling to give out WU, it is a good chance to help Rosetta@Home. Who knows which one has the right research strategy, so why not put help both.
 
 

I did too. Seemed pretty good balance to run CPU for Rosetta and GPU for F@h.

I gave them all my CPU power due to the fact they doing those calculation not with GPU's

I am actually doing Rosetta on my CPU’s and folding on my GPU’s. Since WU can be hard to get, I figured if at least get my CPU’s running 100% of the time on Rosetta.
 
Trying to give everyone as much data as possible!

When I saw this reply and checked it, I saw whether my computer (i5 8250u, mx150) would fit the timing in just a few hours or miss it by a few hours. And I'm talking about expiration, not just timeout. Since my primary goal was to help and as far as I can see, the time constraints are longer, I decided to switch to BOINC so that I would do the same job at BOINC and help less interested Rosetta@home Project which is also Works for finding cure for COVID-19, and also at F@H when ı leave a WU to make room for faster computers than mine waiting. The reason I wrote this is to warn owner of lower level computer friends like me, if your Base and Estimated Credits are the same, you are probably doing it in vain because you will probably miss expiration date and all data for WU will be wiped and you will not get any credits. So if your goal is to help, you can check out Rosetta@home (there are instructions at their site if you want to install it) and switch to BOINC.
 

Shouldn't we do a event for Rosetta@home project? They are working on COVID-19 as well and due to their expiration dates (much more than F@H) we can call the people who uses low-end pcs and able to support a different project.

Joined the team. Folding Rosetta@home project.

Joined the team. Folding Rosetta@home project.

Joined my old gaming laptop yesterday. Have experienced som glitching with finished WU's not popping up in the statistics. Hopefully they will come up later.
 
Only have had one small CPU task though, so I've dedicated that one to Rosetta@Home now instead where they have over 800.000 jobs queued. Running that one on the LTT team as well.
 
Waiting for new GPU tasks at F@H, but havent gotten any in 2 hours so I guess they are running low on WU's?

Looks like they have 1.05M work units currently being worked on with another 22k in the tank. Lots of work to go around. Also at an estimated 347 PFLOPs. https://boinc.bakerlab.org/rosetta/server_status.php
 

Joined the team!

Just a reminder that BOINC Rosetta@Home has no issues and is researching Covid-19 with results already too. It does the folding on CPU cores though - GPU not supported.

Just a reminder that BOINC Rosetta@Home has no issues and is researching Covid-19 with results already too. It does the folding on CPU cores though - GPU not supported.

Yes! I am doing that to! Sadly it can't use my gpu... But there are other BOINC projects that can use it!

For people whose primary goal is not to win prizes in the competiton
or
help LTT get more points that the other team in the stats,
but
rather to help find vaccine as soon as possible,
please
fold for Rosetta@Home project
while
you computer has no workunits
from
Folding@Home