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Linux is not like Windows. You don't have to adapt to it, it adapts to you. Find a close match and adapting it will be easier.
I use Lubuntu. It is not crammed full of features like some other flavors (not bloated). It leaves a lot amount of resources available for games while providing a basic desktop.
SOOOO refreshingly CLEAN and easy to navigate - AWESOME and SO obviously needed for the past 7 years - Gnome 3 is really is getting awesome and mature
p.s. don't forget the "sick" easypeasy installable "extensions"
Depends on your hardware and what you want to do with it. Also, on your previous knowledge of Linux.
Personally, I prefer Ubuntu, mainly 'cause it's the most known. If you have old hardware, go for Lubuntu.
OpenSuSE is well known for its high quality desktop as well, but is quite different from Ubuntu, tastes are important. Gentoo is a good distribution if you like to compile software itself. Of course SteamOS is focused on games.
In short, decide what is important for you, and try multiple distirbutions that fit that. Chose the one you like. There is no single answer, different people have different preferences.
My favorite indeed!
That is a wise recommendation.
- most user friendly linux distro at this moment.
- much faster than Ubuntu, Fedora, Mint and most other popular distro's.
- automatic hardware detection. it installs the latest AMD or Nvidia drivers on Manjaro.
- stable rolling-release model. (unlike ubuntu, debian, fedora, .. who will have older software and a limited support period)
- no bias towards any one particular user interface. I personally prefer Manjaro Cinnamon 16.02 for this reason:
Plasma 5.5 is unstable at the moment on every distro, most users don't love Unity (the user interface that Ubuntu uses) and Gnome 3 is a user experience design failure.
- 5th position on the Page Hit Ranking from DistroWatch this month (Manjaro is becoming the most popular linux distro)
- steam on Manjaro is more flawless than on any other Linux distro. performance is good, stability generally good too.
1) Packaging standards
2) Default desktop environment.
As a new user, you really shouldn't care much about 1).
Packaging standards are more important to advanced users.
The only time this is relevant to novice users is when a program you want isn't in the distro's repos.
For ubuntu-likes, the solution is using PPAs.
For fedora-likes, the solution is adding a third party repo (basically, a PPA).
For arch-likes, the solution is the AUR.
For debian-likes (e.g., ubuntu) and fedora-likes (e.g., RHEL, centos), developers usually have a downloadable package like you would experience on windows.
2) Is more important to new users.
Most distros allow the user to install any desktop environment they'd like and tweak it anyway they like.
So really, what do you want your "out of the box" experience to be like?
If you want a novel interface with widespread support, ubuntu is a good option.
Ubuntu also has a kde version, a gnome version, and probably others.
Fedora comes with gnome.
Arch comes with... a terminal, and you build your experience from the ground-up :p (my preference).
Linux mint comes with cinnamon, and is based on ubuntu. Cinnamon (and kde) is probably the most windows-like experience, in terms of there being a task bar with a 'start-like' menu.
It's really up to you.
You can customize any distro to act and behave like any other distro. The software is usually the same. The defaults are what differ.
First, arch doesn't compile anything. If you build from the AUR, then you compile, but otherwise, it's a binary distribution.
The only widespread from-source distribution is gentoo.
I repeat - Arch is *not* a distro that requires that you compile programs. It is just as binary as ubuntu/mint/fedora/centos/rhel/whatever.
https://wiki.manjaro.org/index.php?title=Pamac
Pamac is simple, easy to use and extremely fast.
Installing and updating software goes much slower on operating systems like Windows 10, OS X, Linux Mint, ,...
The only thing that can install and update software as fast as Manjaro Linux is probably Arch Linux.
I will point out that in either Mint-Cinnamon or Ubuntu=Gnome or other Ubuntu Distros, I re-installed many many times, and my point here is with a terminal command
sudo apt-get install (THen my list of over 50 packages/1000 dependecied/ 1.5 Gb of space
takes my computer 3- 5 minutes - done .... hmmmm pretty fast I'd say
been doing this for 7 years
I also pride myself with being able to do a complete reinstall back to 100 functional in less than 30 minutes in Ubuntu related Distrros, 3 hours - 3 days in Windows Ha HA
Cheers
And why do you use apt-get? Aptitude is the recommended tool on Ubuntu.
Aptitude and apt-get work the same for many tasks, but for the most tricky cases, such as distribution upgrades (apt-get dist-upgrade vs. aptitude full-upgrade), they have different rules, and aptitude's rules are nearly always better in practice where they disagree.
Pacman is faster than apt-get, and there is no subjectivity involved.
Arch based distro's have the fastest package managers around.
That is one of the reasons why Arch is the best distro for older, weaker computers.
You pride yourself that you can do a complete reïnstall to functional in less than 30 minutes.
I don't really understand what you find impressive about this.
It takes me maximum 20 minutes to do a complete reinstall of Manjaro Cinnamon 16.02.
And it will be more functional than an unmodified Ubuntu-Gnome setup.