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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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definitely ubuntu
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I've got to go with Endeavour. I'm not sure it's so much that it's overrated, but more that the community talks about it as a replacement for Manjaro which is far from the case. The installation may be easier than arch but once it's all up and running you're going to need to be comfortable in the terminal to sort things out. The documentation for endeavour is incredibly lacking too. It's an unnecessary middle step between a "beginner" distro and arch. If you can't follow the arch installation guide on the wiki then you're going to have even more trouble when it comes to endeavour
@valentino really surprised nobody said Fedora or CentOS since they're pretty much the same thing now: unpaid beta testing for RHEL.
Seeing a lot of Manjaro here, what's the deal? I installed it just yesterday on a test machine to check it out as I plan on steering over from windows long-term so just browsing what's out there. Don't really have issues and it ticks the boxes of a more user-friendly installation and comes out of the box with Plasma. I may try out pure Arch or the GUI fork just not to have the hassle of setting up the DE
You have to manually manage new kernel branches with the manjaro-settings-manager.
Lots of people get told "it's arch with good defaults! Just sudo pacman -Syu and you're good!"
...which leads to them eventually breaking their systems and blaming manjaro.
No rolling release is appropriate for people who can't RTFM.
Gentoo. There's way better methods to learn Linux, compiling, and the filesystem hierarchy standard. Start with Linux From Scratch and go from there.
the whole user demographic is like 5 dudes. I agree why go for Gentoo when you can go for Linux from Scratch. Maybe simply because it has a catchier distro name