What operating system to choose for a laptop?

r1mple2019-07-04 20:41:05

linux

r1mple, 2019-07-04 20:41:05

I am 16 years old and I am a programmer.
I will buy a laptop for 40,000 thousand, and now the question arose, which Linux distribution to install?
My favorites are Manjaro, KDE Neon, Ubuntu, LXME and Clear linux.
What to choose and why?
You can offer something of your own, but please do not offer systems on arch (I know that manjaro is on arch).

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TyzhSysAdmin, 2019-07-04
@POS_troi

The one you like and choose, how can we help here?
As they say "all markers taste different", but if you really care about opinion, then CentOS :)

Adamos, 2019-07-04
@Adamos

What to choose and why?

Without an explanation of "why" there will be no normal answers.
I want to have sex and explore - put everything in turn.
I just want to work ... come on, who will believe it? ..

Sergey Mironov, 2019-07-05
@MozgFx

If simpler Mint.
More seriously, openSUSE.
Do not listen to the nonsense of specialists with many years of experience - who gave up at the very beginning of the path you are trying to take.
As for Arch - on the contrary, many people praise him.
Problems that arise should be addressed as they arise.

Ingvar, 2019-07-04
@take

The previous commentator with great experience recommends not to bet. You know, we will always find a husband with great experience who will dissuade you from marrying.
I, firstly, will remind you of the existence of laptops with pre-installed Linux (DELL, for example) on which everything works right away.
secondly, I can only welcome the installation of Linux by a programmer. These are numerous development environments, containers, flexibility, security, reliability.
Recently a friend told a story. I wrote the game for two years, wrote in Ubuntu, tested on W10. Began to cut into java for smartphones. With the next update, W10 destroyed the partition with Linux and all the latest code.
My recommendation is Majaro and no KDE Neon or Wayland on Gnome. Not stable.

Sergey Gultyaev, 2019-07-04
@bite_byte

I'm not much of a Linux gadfly, but Mint locks me up. :)
On the laptop it breathes normally. But brains will do.

NyXzOr, 2019-07-05
@NyXzOr

NixOS

CityCat4, 2019-07-05
@CityCat4

The distribution has three options: type (source-based/package-based), package manager (build manager for source-based), and init system (init.d/systemd/upstart...).
You google each parameter, see what you like best, search for a distribution to your liking. Any DE is installed on any Linux, and no one even bothers to combine them.
For example, I have lightdm + TDE (although tde has its own tdm, but it drives me)
If you want to have sex, you can install Gentoo/Calculate, LFS. FreeBSD just shouldn't be installed - it's not even linux at all, there is a radically different ideology, its popularity lately ala ul...

Joss Nix, 2019-07-05
@Jossnix

If you do not want to periodically figure out "why the laptop does not work", then Manjaro will not work. Though it depends on experience. Probably, at the initial level, only the presence of AUR will be a plus here - you will spend less time installing software that is not in the program installation manager of your distro (respectively, if this software is in the AUR). Now I'm sitting on this distro myself, there were problems a couple of times in a year and a half.
Ubuntu should be less of a problem in this regard.
Alternatively, you can try Mint + Cinnamon (I sat on it for about 5 years before Manjaro). I think the pluses are:
IMHO, if you are not developing specifically for Linux, then there is not much difference in distributions. It all comes down to who has what taste.
PS
And about 40000...
1) Look at what kind of hardware you have
2) On the website of the distribution kit you are interested in, look at the system requirements
3) Decide whether your laptop meets the necessary characteristics

Alexandrium45, 2019-07-05
@Alexandrium45

Put dEEP in=)

podguzovvasily, 2019-07-05
@podguzovvasily

Ubuntu. I said everything.

xensystems, 2019-07-06
@xensystems

Everything depends on the tasks. Installing Debian or Centos on a desktop is not an easy idea... All software will be very old versions. Trying to install newer versions from unofficial repos will eventually lead to a dependency hell.
So either Ubuntu or some Arch.
By no means Fedora (there is all the software in beta versions-)!
Personally, I have been using Gentoo on all my laptops and workstations for more than 10 years. From DE - Plasma. The current release of Plasma is already very stable, there are no serious life-threatening bugs. + There are no "releases" per se in Gentoo. Just periodically new versions of different packages are released. If you update the system every couple of weeks - everything will be smooth and nothing will have to red-eye) + Gentoo does not have an installer as such. If you want to study the concepts of Linux-based systems in general, this is the most ...

fdroid, 2019-07-06
@fdroid

LFS

Andrey Smirnov, 2019-07-06
@FotoHunter

I'm an archaic Sysadmin - I run everything on SlackWare, from amateur builds I prefer CentOS, although some working packages are only available under Debian. The best solution is to find out which of the distributions is better suited to the task, for example, hackers use Kali Linux with a specific kernel build, and there are Realtime programmers...