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Hello,

I just purchased an AMD framework 13 and while I wait (im)patiently for it to arrive, I was wondering what Linux distros people here are using.

I've only ever use Ubuntu on desktop, but I think I'm ready to move away from it now, which I guess leaves fedora and mint as officially supported distros.

What have you tried? What are your experiences?

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[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Mint if you are coming from Windows.

Pop!_OS if you are coming from Mac.

Pop!_OS on a Thinkpad has been my daily driver for five years now. Not a single problem, ever. Rock solid.

[–] Kancept@allthingstech.social 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@JoMiran @anytimesoon
RedHat if you're coming from OS/2. 25 years now, going strong.

[–] JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I too ran OS/2 back in the day (started with 2.0). I started my Linux journey with Red Hat Halloween in 95(?), but I tend to only recommend Debian based distros to beginners due to the vast amount of support available for that flavour. On the server side, it's still RHEL and its forks.

[–] Kancept@allthingstech.social 2 points 1 week ago

@JoMiran yeah, I have a lot of Debian in my home infrastructure. It does help and open up opportunities for beginners as a ton of tools and tutorials are from a Debian perspective (read: Raspberry pi and Ubuntu)

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