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Discussion on: What's the most beginner-friendly Linux distro?

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Jaime Aleman • Edited

As a Web Developer I have always preferred Debian based distros. Over 10 years of distro-hopping I have tried: Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Crunchbang, Suse Tumbleweed, Arch, Manjaro, Elementary, Mint, Zorin, Kali and ParrotOS for testing their penetration tools, and plain wonderful Debian where I tried every WM and DE.
I've riced KDE, Gnome, i3WM, and Awesome.
I have always wanted to try Fedora and Centos, but never got around to it. Maybe on my older Thinkpad T400.

BUT NOW, I absolutely require super solid stability. No more hopping around and ricing my environment. I am in love with Pop OS pop.system76.com/
It's incredibly stable, built by an amazing team of dedicated professionals and the community is so helpful.

My terminal of choice (after using Termite, Terminator, and Tilix for years) now I use Alacritty + tmux. Nvim is installed for quick file edits but I use VS Code 98% of the time.

Feel free to ask me anything ;)

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Madza

Thank you for sharing, great insight 🙏❤