Which Linux Distro?

[Damian]

I'm a hobby web developer and I have a dedicated Laptop for web development and messing around with things. Thinkpad E580 15" with a i5 8250U if I'm not mistaken, it has a IGP and the battery lasts for about 5-7h of coding and music.

I need a snappy OS and I'm not a fan of slapping DEs on distros, I like when a distro works on their own DE that suits their OS.

I had Ubuntu, it's really good when it comes to simplicity and very easy to use.
Linux Mint, is like Ubuntu and to be honest, no idea why people are using Linux Mint, it's Ubuntu with a different DE slapped on it.
ElementaryOS, amazing DE but sloppy and buggy distro. Windows freeze or get stuck etc.
Fedora 29, awesome but idk, it's pretty cool, I like it, if not more than Ubuntu.
Arch Linux, THE MIGHTY ARCH MASTER RACE #Omega (spam his profile, thanks), it's cool to fool around but I don't have time for that, I don't need THAT MUCH of freedom, I'm ok with no bloat and BS in the OS.
CentOS, using it on digitalocean for my droplets aka webservers.

My friend (Omega) used VOID OS or what ever it's called, I want something snappy, fast install (not like Arch that takes like 20-30min for me lul bcoz I'm noob).

For now it's more like.... Ubuntu or Fedora
Any suggestions?

I'm not using anything special, ssh connections, bash aka .sh files aka macros aka make life easier to pack and upload all the ♥♥♥♥ on web servers, atom? mostly because of a badass Github implementation, not a fan of pushing, pulling stuff from the terminal, atom does it with 4 clicks :) emmm nodeJS for the scss compiler, emmm spotify, filezilla when I need to access different hostings, they might be other things that I'm using but can't remember those.

I will get a gaming rig in the future so no gaming on this laptop.

[x_wing]

If you're a web dev you almost don't have restrictions in what to use. Also, if you like Ubuntu (i.e. you're familiarized managed a Ubuntu system), I think that you should go with a distro that is Ubuntu based. But yes, in the end switching from one distro to another that is based in the former is just about getting a better DE integration (e.g. KDE Neon) or some critical "bleeding edge" updates you may want to have (e.g. Pop_OS!).

So, I think that you should go for a Ubuntu based distro (the latest LTS would be a good idea) with a DE that is comfortable for you and do a heavy use of docker containers in order to test your code (I believe that this is the standard for web devs now days).

By the way, I know that you asked for suggestion but I didn't gave one. And that's is simply because you asked for something that works "out of the box", and probably any distro will (out of Arch, probably), not to mention that DE preference is a very personal taste. So, I can only give you my current preferred/chosen distro: KDE Neon (Ubuntu LTS + latest version of KDE)

[Damian]

I was trying to install Fedora 30 but it tells me that I'm unable to install the OS because /dev/sda1 is still mounted and /dev/sda1 is my Fedora boot drive. It seems like the Fedora Live thingy is messing around with the installer and I tried to umount it but it says that it's busy. I guess I can't umount it because then the whole installer would die... I guess that's a bug :x

[Cyber2B]

Kubuntu or Pop! OS, these are FAR by the best I have ever used and i'm new to Linux.

However for your needs, I recommend Kubuntu because its based of Ubuntu and Ubuntu is the most popular out of all of the Linux's out there, since that's the case, it probably has the best compatability for the dev software you will be using.

[Omega]

I haven't tried it myself yet but Intel's Clear Linux looks interesting.

It's still very much in developement, the latests version recieved a desktop installer, so I am guessing they are also aiming at workstation use. Clear Linux by default has some of the best performance of all distros in various compute workloads.


OpenSUSE is also cool, it's basically a competitor to Fedora. I recommend running the OpenSUSE Leap instead of OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for stability. I found Tumbleweed to be quite unstable. SUSE does take security very seriously, this means their distro does have some of the worste performance due to all the cpu vulnerability mitigations.


Fedora, CentOS and RHEL are all basically the same thing. Fedora is made for workstations, CentOS for servers and RHEL is a paid version of CentOS.

[IceFoxX]

Messaggio originale di x_wing:

If you're a web dev you almost don't have restrictions in what to use. Also, if you like Ubuntu (i.e. you're familiarized managed a Ubuntu system), I think that you should go with a distro that is Ubuntu based. But yes, in the end switching from one distro to another that is based in the former is just about getting a better DE integration (e.g. KDE Neon) or some critical "bleeding edge" updates you may want to have (e.g. Pop_OS!).

So, I think that you should go for a Ubuntu based distro (the latest LTS would be a good idea) with a DE that is comfortable for you and do a heavy use of docker containers in order to test your code (I believe that this is the standard for web devs now days).

By the way, I know that you asked for suggestion but I didn't gave one. And that's is simply because you asked for something that works "out of the box", and probably any distro will (out of Arch, probably), not to mention that DE preference is a very personal taste. So, I can only give you my current preferred/chosen distro: KDE Neon (Ubuntu LTS + latest version of KDE)

lul so gentoo will work out of the box? nope

[CravenCoyote]

If you want the freedom of Arch but the installation ease of other distributions, consider trying Manjaro.

[x_wing]

Messaggio originale di IceFoxX:

lul so gentoo will work out of the box? nope

Yes, I was definitely trying to mention all distros. Either case, I think I didn't mention a lot of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Linux_distributions

[Blaquicat]

I guess my debian wasnt so great..

[Danny3]

I like Kubuntu because it uses KDE Plasma desktop environment, which is just awesome.
It's very fast, customizable, good looking, hast integration with Android phone and is pretty much Windows like, so it does not reinvent the wheel in an unintuitive way like Gnome 3.
Using Kubuntu makes me not to miss Windows 7 so much.