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Newcomer is a temporary state, not a use case.

In every other operative system you can use the latest version of things as itthey are eleased.

Now with Flatpak that is mostly true in Linux too.

And unless you are affected by an annoyance fixed in the latest version a system component like the Desktop Environment, you are fine in any distro.

I, on the other hand, believe that newcomer or not, desktop users will have the best experience with an up to date distro.

Maybe not Arch, unless technically inclined and willing to learn.

I must admit after playing a bit more with it, that this quiz in particular is more polished than usual, and it tends to give recommendations that make sense.

Ultramarine Linux Ultramarine is a modern operating system that lets you just do your thing with the hardware and tools you already love.

Then Ultramarine, obviously

ultramarine-linux.org

Just asking the hive mind. You'll also get personal opinions and tired cliches, but you can start a conversation and go deeper.

But ii it helps someone to break an indecision loop, then job done.

It's better to pick the wrong distro and roll with it than never moving ahead.

These quizzes are always a glorified collection of personal opinions and tired clichés.

This one is no exception, it exposes it's weights and my personal opinion is different in many cases.

It's like the horoscope, fun to read, but you shouldn't take it seriously.

They mean that Gnome 50 will be Wayland only.

The X server is still in Debian's repos and will remain there for a while.

Cinnamon to be Wayland ready soon (Expected for Mint 23 at the end of this year)

"Free Software" is a horrible choice of a name, because it's easy to misunderstand it as "no money", when that is absolutely not what it means.

www.gnu.org/philosophy/f...

Installing a free Android ROM is more complicated than installing Linux Mint on a PC, but equally effective against bundled corporate spyware.

I'd start by checking if your model is supported by LineageOS

lineageos.org

Or which other ROMs support it, in XDA Forums

xdaforums.com

Filed under "The OS that already powers the world's infrastructure will never succeed unless they do as I say." Subcategory "Stop using the terminal because I don't get it"

Codecs in Fedora.

During installation answer yes when asked if you want third party repos.

After installation open GNOME Software, and scroll down until you see the codecs button.

Install whatever you need, or all if in doubt.

Easy peasy

Debian supports ARM, and they have a live iso with Gnome (Meaning that you can install it as a whole, instead of using the traditional Debian installer that expects you to take decisions)

That's probably the closest to what you use now.

cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/week...

Linux set the computer clock to UTC

Windows sets the computer clock to local time.

Unless you change one of them your time will always be wrong.

The recommendation is to tell Windows to do the correct thing

wiki.archlinux.org/title/System...

K comes from Kool

groups.google.com/g/de.comp.os...

Maybe here they can help you detecting why openRGB crashes

www.reddit.com/r/OpenRGB/

True, it's not (just) about Windows, there are other perhaps even more important areas, like cloud providers.

If you keep reading it also says that DINUM will coordinate an inter ministerial effort to reduce the dependencies of non european altertives, and that every ministry must present a plan by autumn (

www.numerique.gouv.fr/sinformer/es...

(La DINUM coordonnera un plan interministériel ...)

If the laptop doesn't shut up, it means it's trying hardly to dissipate heat.

Does it have a Nvidia GPU? If so, a probable cause is that the GPU is running at 100% all the time.

wiki.archlinux.org/title/NVIDIA...

Or something else is making that laptop heat / not cool.

Mint se basa en Ubuntu LTS, que actualmente es 24.04. En breve sale Ubuntu 26.04, pero creo que tampoco va a traer Wine 11

Opciones:
- Instalar Wine 11 a mano: ubuntuhandbook.org/index.php/20...

- Usar una distro con un ciclo de actualización mas rápido (Bazzite se basa en Fedora)

I stand corrected, he did add Pottering to the salad.

Huge win for open standards and freedom from vendor lock-in! Germany’s Sovereign Digital Stack mandates ODF, the Open Document Format: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/03...

Thoughts about the Open Source Tea Party I have been thinking about whether I should write a blog post about the following topic for a long time. After all Jono asked us to calm down and not put more oil into the fire. But on the other ha…

Incorrect.

Shuttleworth called "open source tea party" to those not helping Canonical wirh Mir.

The systemd vs upstart debate in Debian happened around the same time, but it was a different battle.

Shuttleworth deleted his blog, but here is an answer

blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2013/10...

Chart about usage of Linux distros according to ProtoDB data. Current Top 5 is CachyOS, Arch, Mint, Bazzite, Fedora

WTF CachyOS? Respect the elder!

boilingsteam.com/cachy-os-is-...

"They make me use Windows at work." emotional support group. I would attend.

Several.

Bazzite
Nobara
ChimeraOS
CachyOS (general distro liked by gamers)
SteamOS (only handhelds)
Batocera (only retro emulation)
Lanka (only retro emulation)

But you can really use any distro to play games.

Here's a wiki with more info
linux-gaming.kwindu.eu/index.php/Ma...

You mention Snap so I assume that you use Ubuntu.

There are two things that I've found helpful

1. Gnome Software can replace all the mess of custom GUI apps they have.

2. Snapd can be completely removed and blocked against reinstall.

Now some things like Firefox night require a ppa (or Flatpak)

Good. Linux users giving money to Nvidia should be charged for the pain they cause.

LOL no. In fact, Wine (the thing to run Windows software on Linux) might work where modern Windows fails, but not always.

The *main* reason is that I feel more respected as a user.