Original question by @[email protected]
I have used linux in a past job (I did not set it up), so im not a total noob with linux. But I am far from an expert. I bought a tablet that had a flavor of linux on it and found myself woefully unprepared trying to navigate the tablet. I was planning to use it for DnD for pdf reading, but it apparently wasn’t capable of that bcz it was a rather custom OS. With windows 10 support being dropped by Microsoft in the next few months, I want to transition my desktop to Linux, and I thought I’d get a headstart on that. I have a windows 11 laptop (and I hate it), but im kinda stuck with it for now. So, in the spirit of I am a noob who isn’t quite a noob, what do ya’ll recommend? p.s. I used Ubuntu for a bit way way back in high school
Kubuntu 24.04 LTS.
Hassle free, easy to use and the desktop environment closely resembles Windows.
This and consider also Linux Mint.
Linux Mint is nice, but I feel like the look & feel is starting to look outdated. Otherwise it’s an excellent choice.
@cyborganism @cm0002 I tried to deploy it for my software team, but I had to backtrack during the early testing phase after a number of issues. Kubuntu seems way less tested than normal Ubuntu. We ended up going with Mint instead, which is also what I would recommend.
I would imagine this might change a bit in Lubuntu 26.04, being on KDE 6 is probably a very good thing for an LTS