Best linux distro..?

[Uday_Sama]

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I want to dual boot my new laptop a long with Windows 10. Which Linux distro would be a better option.. 

I use Linux just for programming stuff but not use it as a primary OS. 

(not entirely a beginner, I'm aware a bit)

Thank you

[Electronics Wizardy]

mint? Fedora? ubuntu? All of these will work fine and are well supported. Just try the live distros and see what you like. Distro doesn't really matter two much.

[Shimejii]

It honestly depends on what you want to do? Are you just doing programming that you cannot do in windows or in a Virtual Machine instead of Dual booting? 

 

How old are you, are you doing this for HS classes or College classes?

 

Top three would be Ubunutu, then fedora, but theres SO many different distros

 

[Uday_Sama]

3 minutes ago, Shimejii said:

It honestly depends on what you want to do? Are you just doing programming that you cannot do in windows or in a Virtual Machine instead of Dual booting? 

 

How old are you, are you doing this for HS classes or College classes?

 

Top three would be Ubunutu, then fedora, but theres SO many different distros

 

I guess virtual machine isn't quite an option for me now.. I want to dual boot.. You can say it for college classes but I want to improve my ability for myself so I want to try out programming on Linux 

 

[Shimejii]

1 minute ago, Uday_Sama said:

I guess virtual machine isn't quite an option for me now.. I want to dual boot.. You can say it for college classes but I want to improve my ability for myself so I want to try out programming on Linux 

 

9/10 i would just set up a VM, instead of dualbooting. It honestly doesnt take THAT much resources to do one VM. But if you want to dual boot, MAKE SURE YOU PARTITION IN WINDOWS! Look up how to do it properly, otherwise you will mess up your current OS. We had a few guys in my college class brick their HDD's because of that. 

[Drak3]

Ubuntu is the best supported as a desktop environment, but honestly, Linux kinda sucks for desktops. Alot.

 

I'd look more into FreeBSD.

[Shura]

Arch Linux gives you the most freedom and access to the best application repositories but it's also the most difficult to setup. I would say use Manjaro which is based on arch and one of the more popular distros currently available. It's really gonna come down to preference though. If you have new hardware you can get Manjaro with KDE, Gnome, Budgie. If you are on old hardware then XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon(cinnamon needs a decent gpu). If you want to preconfigured Windows like or mac like experience then you can try the deepin version of Manjaro.

[Uday_Sama]

10 minutes ago, Shura said:

Arch Linux gives you the most freedom and access to the best application repositories but it's also the most difficult to setup. I would say use Manjaro which is based on arch and one of the more popular distros currently available. It's really gonna come down to preference though. If you have new hardware you can get Manjaro with KDE, Gnome, Budgie. If you are on old hardware then XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon(cinnamon needs a decent gpu). If you want to preconfigured Windows like or mac like experience then you can try the deepin version of Manjaro.

I'm trying to use it as live cd.. Because I use Linux bit less than Windows.... And I want to frequently try different distros in future.. Is live USB better option for me now.. I hardly use terminal and all

[Shura]

5 minutes ago, Uday_Sama said:

I'm trying to use it as live cd.. Because I use Linux bit less than Windows.... And I want to frequently try different distros in future.. Is live USB better option for me now.. I hardly use terminal and all

Manjaro does have a live cd but keep in mind live cds are created to be more universal, with lots of modules that load during startup, ones that you probably don't need just so its more compatible. Also permissions and user groups are somewhat limited in a live environment. Have you considered installing it in VM? that way you can boot up the virtual machine only when you need it and you can hop around multiple distros without much trouble.

[Dat Guy]

7 hours ago, Uday_Sama said:

Which Linux distro would be a better option.. 

Void. Highly recommendable.

[CitrusBoot]

6 hours ago, Shura said:

Arch Linux gives you the most freedom and access to the best application repositories but it's also the most difficult to setup. I would say use Manjaro which is based on arch and one of the more popular distros currently available. It's really gonna come down to preference though. If you have new hardware you can get Manjaro with KDE, Gnome, Budgie. If you are on old hardware then XFCE, Mate, Cinnamon(cinnamon needs a decent gpu). If you want to preconfigured Windows like or mac like experience then you can try the deepin version of Manjaro.

Arch is only the most difficult to set up if you try to use all that freedom to remove systemd.

[jpenguin]

I like fedora.  Mint is a popular choice too.  Take a look at opensuse and mageia

[Shoe_Eater]

I personally would recommend to not use Ubuntu, as in my experience it has been one of the least stable distros, however I would still say that going for something debian based would be a good option, although if you are fluent with Linux, you could move over to something arch based which would give you some added customisation.

[Dat Guy]

Void is a better Arch. 

[xAcid9]

I currently using Manjaro Deepin. I personally think it give great out of the box experience with a mix of OSX + Windows. 

 

Installation is easy, just download Deepin community build from Manjaro website and put it in your pendrive with Rufus or something. 

Use the built-in package manager to update and find softwares, you can enable AUR from package manager option for more bleeding edge softwares since Manjaro is based on Arch. 

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Antegros (Arch Linux), as a rolling release it has all the best gaming and application support. Playing Overwatch on 70fps locked, no drop now.

[wasab]

ubuntu is buggy and slow but pretty and everything is provided out of the box

 

mint is the same as ubuntu but much faster thanks to cinnamon. One drawback is customizing cinnamon often results in bugs. I remember the transparent panel plugin error every time when the desktop starts.

 

manjaro is just meh. it is one of the most bug free distro and everything is pretty provided and worked out of the box. however, the xfce desktop is a bit lacking and split screen doesnt function very well. I need to often retry several times to position split screen correctly

 

i will try out debian, arch, and finally fedora before quitting distro hopping. 

 

Other more obscure distros ive tried include deepin.

For those who think it is spyware, why dont you read its source code and point me the spying lines of code if you so smart

https://www.openhub.net/p/linuxdeepin

It is aweome at first but after a while, i simply got tired of its pretty mac like desktop. Cub linux is another one which is an utterly broken distro, dont tried this garbage.

 

 

[AntonChigurh]

On 10/14/2018 at 8:16 PM, Uday_Sama said:

I want to dual boot my new laptop a long with Windows 10. Which Linux distro would be a better option.. 

I use Linux just for programming stuff but not use it as a primary OS. 

(not entirely a beginner, I'm aware a bit)

Thank you

Mint, Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and Debian are all pretty good. Manjaro is pretty good as well, if a little buggy

[jpenguin]

9 hours ago, wasab said:

i will try out debian, arch, and finally fedora before quitting distro hopping. 

I think solyd or tanglu should be pretty good as far as stability goes.  Fedora's for me, but because they use such new packages- it's not rock solid.  Arch isn't going to be much different than what you're using.  Opensuse may be worth checking too

[VanBantam]

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Substance fww:

You will most likely not want to use CentOS.  CentOS kernel is frozen at 3.10 and fixes are back ported.  Maybe you'll want to try linux from scratch.  It's a great learning experience and you'll definitely improve your bash chops. 

That said I would recommend something like mint or fedora.  

I would also recommend buying a cheap 120gb ssd and install linux on that, don't bother with the dual boot madness., I'm pretty sure other folks have gotten it to work fine but I've just dodged the whole process. I have a t420s that has windows 10 and linux mint, I think it's 17, installed on separate drives.  

Edited October 20, 2018 by SansVarnic

[LexCalifornia]

On 10/15/2018 at 5:16 AM, Uday_Sama said:

I want to dual boot my new laptop a long with Windows 10. Which Linux distro would be a better option.. 

I use Linux just for programming stuff but not use it as a primary OS. 

(not entirely a beginner, I'm aware a bit)

Thank you

If you're running UEFI with SecureBoot, Fedora. Works like a charm if your hardware is fully supported.

[Montgomery C Burns]

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