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Linux Distro Recommendations

My linux distro recommendations, ordered by usability for a normal user (most to least)

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Fedora KDE​

  • Release Cycle: Standard
  • Ease of use Rating: Good
  • Very stable, has a rescue mode if stuff breaks
  • Used by Linus Torvalds himself

Bazzite ⭐​

  • Release Cycle: Rolling
  • Ease of use Rating: Dead Simple
  • Both Atomic and Immutable

Linux Mint​

  • Release Cycle: Standard
  • Ease of use Rating: Good
  • Basically Ubuntu, but stable

CachyOS​

Comments

Highly recommended for technical users

  • Release Cycle: Rolling
  • Ease of use Rating: Technical
  • Terminal based
  • Atomic
  • Basically Arch Linux, but with an installer

EndeavorOS​

  • Release Cycle: Rolling
  • Ease of use Rating: Technical
  • Terminal based
  • Basically CachyOS, but with less "bloat"
Comments

Use CachyOS instead, unless you want the bare minimum to run but at that point use Arch lol