Which Linux to install instead of Windows on Asus K53TA?

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Good time to all!
There is an Asus K53TA laptop in everyday use.
Installed Windows 10, which is quite tired. I want to replace it with some Linux distribution that's fast, stable, and just as visually pleasing.
Activities performed: Surfing, Music, Movies (online and offline), occasional office and photo work.
Programs used: Chrome, Opera, Notepad++, Filezilla, Spotify, VLC, PotPlayer, Office, Photoshop.
Minimum terminal, maximum visual). It is not necessary to have everything out of the box at once, but so that basically all actions are carried out through the graphical shell and based on aesthetic convenience, as with Windows.
But the most important thing is that everything just works out with firewood, both cards work, or at least only a discrete one. Watching movies through the browser was comfortable in 720 quality, without lags. And then on Windows, on some popular movie sites it is interrupted, although in youtube even at 1080 everything is smooth, playback is everywhere using html.
The current choice is Ubuntu 16.04, also because it has a huge community.
What do you recommend?
Processor: AMD A6-3400M APU, 1400 MHz (4 cores)
RAM: 8 gb (DDR3)
Dual Graphics: Integrated AMD Radeon HD 6520G (512 mb) + HD 6750M (1 gb)
HDD: 250 gb (5400 RPM, SATA- II)
Thank you for your attention!
PS I like Mac OS a lot, but elementary OS is not trustworthy :)

Answer 1

I have 7660g + 7670m video cards
I couldn't start the video driver properly on Ubuntu 16.04
The amdgpu-pro driver won't start because the video cards are considered "outdated" The
proprietary driver didn't impress me either, from the word "completely" I
tried Ubuntu 16.04, Linux Mint 18.3

graphics card support info

Ubuntu Is Deprecating fglrx (Catalyst) In 16.04 LTS
Ubuntu developers have deprecated the fglrx / Catalyst Linux display stack for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Users of this upcoming Ubuntu release are now encouraged to use the open-source Radeon display stack.
The tentative 16.04 release notes mention, "The fglrx driver is now deprecated in 16.04, and we recommend its open source alternatives (radeon and amdgpu). AMD put a lot of work into the drivers, and we backported kernel code from Linux 4.5 to provide a better experience. When upgrading to Ubuntu 16.04 from a previous release, both the fglrx driver and the xorg.conf will be removed, so that the system is set to use either the amdgpu driver or the radeon driver (depending on the available hardware)."
Canonical will not be supporting the fglrx/Catalyst Linux driver in their archive beginning with Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus. There's nothing stopping anyone from downloading the latest release from AMD.com and installing the driver directly or generating the Debian packages from that -- assuming upstream Linux kernel and xorg-server compatibility -- but it's not being supported by upstream Ubuntu.
For most users, the open-source Radeon graphics stack is "good enough" particularly if you just care about desktop use-cases, video playback, and light gaming. However, currently the open-source Radeon Linux graphics stack only supports OpenGL 4.1 rather than OpenGL 4.5, the open-source OpenCL compute stack leaves a lot to be desired, and there are other current open-source AMD driver limitations that for some users will make switching to the open-source driver a regression in experience and performance.
The NVIDIA Linux driver will remain in place for Ubuntu 16.04. The news of Ubuntu deprecating fglrx/Catalyst isn't entirely a big surprise since around the middle of the year is when AMD is expected to roll out their new Catalyst Linux driver based on the AMDGPU kernel driver. There, however, that support is still expected to be limited to GCN 1.2+ GPUs at least initially so it won't be of any relevance to the vast majority of AMD Linux customers at the moment unless GCN 1.0~1.1 gets tidied up soon for AMDGPU.

Answer 2

I recommend staying at 10.
Linux is a comfortable system... after some fine-tuning with a file.
Although if you are not afraid of difficulties, then in principle any of the popular distributions will do.
Just get ready for big WTF per minute. :-)

Answer 3

If visually pleasing, then Ubuntu or OpenSuse.
If light, then any with an XFCE or LXDE environment.
If you haven’t worked with Linux before, then I don’t advise you to pervert and try Ubuntu first. Now the stable and long-supported version is 16.04.
You can do without the terminal, but it's better to master it.. ;)

Answer 4

Modern Office, Photoshop on Linux do not work. Stay on windows.
Linux is convenient only for development under Linux for everything else, it is not suitable.

Answer 5

The current choice is Ubuntu 16.04, also because it has a huge community.
What do you recommend?

Yes, Ubuntu 16.04. I recommend the gnome version, not unity.
Completely all desires will not be fulfilled. You will have to work in the terminal.
There is no MS Office and Photoshop in Linux, and there are no analogues either.
If they are critical to you, then switching to Linux will not work for you.

Answer 6

Linux Mint. The most user friendly I've ever tried.

Answer 7

Replace the HDD with an SSD, install Windows 7, only a clean distribution, not an assembly like Vasyan_Mega_Edition.

Answer 8

1. make livesidy from several distros and work with all of them for a couple of days at least
without installation, then select ...
2. Everything that is advised - everything can work ....
3. Here (in Linux) it’s different - without the command line is somehow not comme il faut or something ....
(in both different Linux partitions, when I turn it on, the yakveik is automatically launched automatically, but after the technical service from the office it’s just sick, it’s better to write in markdown,
anyway, the final document is made in pdf and sent somewhere...

Answer 9

If the similarity with Windows is critical, then definitely something on KDE. The rest will be unusual.

Answer 10

It is better to stay on Windows 10, under Linux, all requirements are difficult to fulfill. If you still have a great desire to switch - Linux Mint, DE to your taste, for Windows software like MS Office and Photoshop, Wine 3.0 has recently been released with a bunch of improvements, but in older versions I couldn’t start something normally in it.
I would most likely stay on Windows 10 with such requirements, if I need it easier, I would switch to Windows 10 LTSB.

Answer 11

MS office is almost completely replaced by WPS.
try this assembly forum.ubuntu.ru/index.php?topic=279247.0 , the usual windows buttons are in place. Many firewood and codecs are already installed. You can say everything is on a turn-key basis. I like.