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    [–] trackcharlie@lemmynsfw.com 3 points 1 year ago

    I would personally recommend EndeavourOS or PopOS.

    https://endeavouros.com/

    https://pop.system76.com/

    I recommend EndeavourOS primarily because of it's ease of use and rolling distro means you'll have access to the latest bug fixes and patches (and a very active and supportive community), whereas it does come with the drawback of requiring to fix things every now and then if you've installed packages from places other than endeavour/Aur or require packages/apps that are older.

    Yay (package manager) is very easy to get using as a beginner, however, if you don't want rolling updates and just large update packages similar in scope to windows service pack updates I'd recommend popos or the sister/base os ubuntu. (fedora apparently may be good in this instance as well but I've very little contact with the OS and have been avoiding RHEL-related products recently because of their anti-consumer and anti-open source actions recently).

    Ultimately it's definitely recommended that you try a few distro's to get a feel for what you like and then customize to your hearts content.

    https://distrowatch.com/ if you'd like a more in depth review of various distros and what their performance bonuses or problems are.

    EndeavourOS with xfce4 is very clean and quick to pick up with their little introductory/learning module that they include (once installed or on live, it will provide a popup that includes the following):