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Bojan Petrović

What distros would you generaly recoomend for starting point beside Ubuntu? :)

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Hayden Rouille

Fedora is a good if you want to step up from ubuntu to something a bit more cutting edge, but still want the convenience of a widely used and easy to manage distro.

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

Ok

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rishio

Give a try to Void Linux.
It is lightning fast, very minimalistic, comes with an awesome package manager (xbps), and has an easy learning curve.
Moreover, the installation is so simple that it only takes about 5 min for the whole process.

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

Ok

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TheAwesomeGuy47

Arch Linux after learning basics of Linux via Ubuntu is a good option. The learning curve isn't actually that bad, it's over exaggerated and the installation is quite self-explanatory and there are even tools to automate it for you.

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

You’ve a point

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Pandademic

I absolutely agree! You might struggle for a bit , and then you'll enjoy the ride!

 
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TheAwesomeGuy47

I started using Ubuntu as a VM to make yescoin (YES would be the shorthand term) but failed miserably. Then I moved to Arch VMs discovered how much I love Linux and spent like £200 (GBP, around $250 USD) to buy a 500GB SSD to dual boot Arch Linux with Windows 10.

 
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Pandademic

Nice!

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PNS11

I'd recommend Debian, it's fiercely reliable.

A more important question is what window manager you choose. If you have more than one monitor i3wm is most likely the superior option.

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sigzero

Debian is my go to distro.

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Elliot Brenya sarfo

It depends but currently I am having a good time with zorin OS 16