Tips for picking a GNU/Linux Distribution Discusses the following topics: Package Managers, Ease of installation, Desktop Environments, Your Hardware, Moral and Political Views, Stability, and Final Words. -- Tom
Cool My current favorite is Hydrogen, from Bunsen Labs. It's based on Debian, with Openbox and a rather idiosyncratic desktop environment. There's a right-click menu tree, and lots of hotkeys. Very light and fast. It's the followup to CrunchBang.
I've tried CentOS.... the stable branch of Fedora... supported for 10 years. As you might expect, Red Hat is involved.
I have been on Manjaro for 8 months now. The support on their forum is splendid. I have stopped using W10 entirely. Being a false-beginner I wholeheartedly recommend this distro, always updated as it's a rolling one.
Does not even boot when the Secure boot is on in UEFI. Ubuntu/Mint/Debian/Fedora etc have solved this problem years ago.
There is no real tips, like most of Linux users, you will start by a major distro (like Mint, Ubuntu, etc...), then once you learned the basics, you will inevitably start trying every other distros and DE available until you find the good one
Distro-hopping doesn't fascinate me at all. I prefer to learn more about things like how to use various tools such as awk, grep, find, sed, etc that will make me more productive.
