Suggest me a distro

Hannah Montana Linux

No way that actually exists lol
- https://github.com/HannahMontana-ALE
- It exists for the clueless. Elite users use RebeccaBlackOS

NixOS

Guix
Once I get tired of Gentoo, I’m going to try NixOS again.

EndeavourOS FTW

It's so good
- Been using it since the start of the pandemic. It's exactly what I want.

I'm using Fedora and I'm really happy with it. Pretty solid distro,

I don't like what RedHat is actually doing, but yes Fedora is the successor.
- I'm not happy with RedHat neither. And Fedora 40 considering to add telemetry doesn't help. I love Fedora tho, but if RHEL keeps heading the way is going I'll hop to another distro.
  
  Maybe is time to try Arch and embrace the meme (and learn, I'm a lil scared)

I'm partial to Pop!_OS and their desktop environment.

Pop!_OS is excellent. I came from Mac and Ubuntu and I have had an excellent experience. It can be as out-of-the-box or as customizable as you want. The support is superb. Everything works. Zero downside.
I haven't really used Pop!_OS! yet, but I am getting a System76 laptop so I'll definitely check it out. I hope they get their Cosmic desktop out soon so they can differentiate their distro more instead of being another fork with a few customizations and default apps.
I really like the tiling but I'm getting a bit tired of GNOME.
if you are brave I suggest you endeavour os with i3wm.
- Or sway :)

Try arch and you'll never distro hop again

I can't confirm that (I distro hopped to NixOS) I can confirm that Arch is a solid distro worth learning and will give you the skills to manage it long-term. Compared to Arch based distros like Manjaro, EndeavorOS and Garuda where people tend to screw up their install easily when installing the wrong packages from the AUR and updating with dependency conflicts.
- I tried manjaro, it was a total mess after a few days of setting it up. Decided to just nuke it and go with arch and I've never looked back. Been 5 years now :)
I can confirm that.
Tried to reconfigure some systemd services, switched to Artix (runit flavored btw)
- to reconfigure some systemd services, switched to Artix (runit flavored btw)
  
  Artix is definitely better than Arch. (using dinit flavor btw)

TempleOS

Holy shit! *literally

Your PC can run any distro smoothly. What are you looking for that Mint doesn’t provide?

Personally, I'm looking for reproducible environments where if you create a lock file of your packages, you will get the exact same system on another machine if you copy it over
- Maybe you would like an immutable distro such as Fedora Silverblue?
- NixOS can do that.

Debian stable but be careful though, you might never leave after using it for a while :)

NixOS NixOS NixOS NixOS

Guix Guix Guix Guix
- Ah ha!
  
  It uses low-level mechanisms from the Nix package manager, but packages are defined as native Guile module
  
  Lol I am actually glad there aren't two completely separate implementations... Now to install the hurd kernel...
It's great and I'm using it, but I don't think someone coming from Linux Mint should use it right away. It can get quite complex even coming from Arch or Artix Linux.

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There are some really mixed answers here. I would stick to the mainline distros and not go for a fork with a few customizations. It does depend on what you want, especially if you are willing to learn using the terminal and if you want bleeding edge or more stability. My list would be:

Debian
Kubuntu
Fedora
Pop!_OS
Arch Linux (If you want to learn Linux from its fundamentals)

Right now I would go with Debian. Newish release. Everything is up to date, and they are quite stable.

Pop!Os

Tipps Fedora

Fedora since Podman UI desktop came, for long term usage..

Fedora

I love Podman and Fedora, but for some reason I can't use podman UI :/ I'm not fond of it, but I love the cli :')
- I can’t use podman UI :/ I’m not fond of it
  
  Yeah, it takes time I think since Podman UI is newcomer here. But the future seems promising, especially when Docker decision outraging many their users before. And of course as a Linux user, cli is the best option here for a moment..

Kubuntu

openSUSE Tumbleweed. Rolling and reliable.

How about your own distro? https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

This is giving me "just install gentoo" vibes

I installed Endeavour OS today and I'm liking it a lot.

Classic distro hop thread. Every distro is suggested. :)

I've been using Kubuntu on my gaming PC for a couple years, and Fedora on my laptop. They both work.

I moved to endeavours from Ubuntu and absolutely loving it. The arch back-end and simple management options are easy to use of you aren't afraid of the shell

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fedora, debian, sabayon

FEDORA...

YES

I recently learned about TempleOS and it seems pretty fascinating. Maybe give it a whirl.

That's the kind of thing you install in virtual box and play around for an afternoon, not something to be installed in bare metal
- But what if I told you it'll be fiiiine?

INSTALL GENTOO

If you know, you know.

I’m 0 for 1.
- Same. I installed Gentoo for several hours then downloaded Ubuntu
(If you want to learn by pain that is)

Pop!_OS

I'm running Debian 12 on an Intel i5-2500K (integrated graphics) with 16GB of RAM, and a 256GB SSD and it runs smooth and rock solid.

Arch Linux if you well speak with terminal, Artix if not, Gentoo if want some hard:) PopOS cool.

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I love endeavourOS, can recommend

A good one for Arch Linux.

openSUSE Leap

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Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/KyADkmRVe0U

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

I started out with Mint but then tried out Ubuntu and now I'm using EndeavourOS on my laptop. So far EndeavourOS has been the best experience for me.

I somewhat recently ran across VanillaOS, which I have only really had time to install and play around with for a few minutes, but it seems really cool. A very brief overview is that it is a sort-of-but-not-really immutable OS that leans very heavily on containerization to allow you to install packages from any other distro in a seamless-to-the-user way. So you can install an application (cli or GUI) from an ubuntu repo and use it along side an application from an arch repo. It's ubuntu-based, but according to the info on that link, the next release switches to being debian-based.

I mostly use ChromeOS these days-- well, I guess technically I mostly use SteamOS these days-- so I don't have a lot of hands-on experience with VanillaOS, but I found the concept really cool and from a few minutes of playing around with it, it seemed to work pretty well with respect to the containerization stuff.

I think the best way to decide is to fire up a bunch of VMs and install a distro on each. Going through the installation process for arch is a great way to start learning more about the OS IMO so if you're interested in that then that's a very beneficial thing to do anyway. I use Debian on my laptop and dual boot arch and Debian on my desktop. I've only ever used fedora for servers so I can't comment on how it serves as a daily driver. Here's a few distros I've used and recommend to try out. Debian Arch Manjaro ParrotOS(if you're into security) Centos

If you want to go for traditional distributions that don't have native rollback mechanisms, I would suggest using btrfs along with something like snapper.

If you like Linux Mint, you might wanna try Feren, but it a bit bloated tho

The top 10 in Distrowatch. I don't even know which they are, but odds are that you'll find something good in it.

Have a look on distrowatch

Parabola

NixOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nobara Linux. Fedora's better looking younger brother.

Why not using Fedora and customizing it yourself? What's the advantage of Nobara over Fedora?
- Linux from scratch and customizing it yourself? What’s the
  
  Nobara uses optimized custom kernel for games
- Why not use Linux from scratch and customizing it yourself? What's the advantage of a distro over Linux from scratch?

GhostBSD and Devuan

bruh
- What is that supposed to mean?

NixOS, makes it easy to have the same setup because it's all in one config file. I didn't check it out until last year when they released a graphical installer, now installing/using NixOS is a breeze.

Even if I didn't install NixOS, I'd use the Nix package manager (which is separate, but part of a NixOS system) since it has more packages than the AUR. It's easy to contribute to, so I've been maintaining a package.

Suggest me a distro

FEDORA...