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Currently my answer is ubuntu. I tried to use lubuntu recently but just so much wasn't working out of the box like nm-applet wasn't running on startup. The apt package manager is really tedious to use too.
This could also be boiled down to my general incompetence when it comes to Ubuntu based systems though :p
Whichever your favorite one is, that's the most overrated one
Gentoo. I say this as someone who used to daily drive it.
And arch too.
I'm using ZorinOS with Windows 11 Pro. It's good enough for everything I do.
NixOS for sure, it's poorly documented and even worse designed.
Although I like NixOS, I have to agree with the documentation being crap. Which wouldn't be so bad if it weren't so damn different. I mean, other distros have bad documentation, I just read some man pages or check the Arch or Fedora docs.
I've never used Mint so wouldn't want to comment but it does seem to get a lot of praise and I can't see why.
EndeavorOS would be my vote. Arch with a GUI installer and horrible theme.
All the distros that let you install packages from other distros. What's the point?
How many distros is that? Just VanillaOS and Blend? Or anything that hosts Distrobox?
I have been wanting to try Debian Stable with Distrobox / Arch. Stable base with the largest and most up to date package repository sounds like a match made in heaven.
The point is your first sentence?
Gentoo. There's way better methods to learn Linux, compiling, and the filesystem hierarchy standard. Start with Linux From Scratch and go from there.
@valentino All of them; they're mostly the same! /jk But seriously try another OS: OpenBSD, Haiku, Serenity, Plan 9...
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