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Discussion on: Suggest me the right Linux distro

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Loralighte

If you desire a stable distribution, use either Linux Mint or Pop!_OS. If you want to play games on your system Pop!_OS or Manjaro. If you want a light-weight desktop (which your system doesn't need but it's an option) either go Linux Mint or Peppermint.

Overall the only one I don't recommend is Manjaro, as it is unstable and will brick something you run eventually.

My biggest recommendations are Pop!_OS and Linux Mint. I have never used Peppermint but I also heard it is good.

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Abhijit Hota

Thanks for the suggestions!

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Christopher Carr

Manjaro Gnome is very stable in my experience.

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j00jitsu • Edited

Actually I respectfully disagree. Other than the KDE version, Manjaro has been very stable in my experience, as long as you don't go crazy installing random stuff from the AUR. My preference is the Gnome version as it has a smooth interface like Ubuntu out of the box, but also has a layouts tool that quickly changes the desktop to look like Windows, Mac, or even tiling if that's your preference.

If you want something that's Ubuntu based, Feren OS is another good one to check out.

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Rafael Batista

Totally agree with you. I moved from Fedora to Manjaro and it's been a great experience so far, totally stable, fast and it has the fastest package manager out there.

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Lakshya Singh

I saw this comment and my question was why switch from Fedora cuz am actually going in the reverse manjaro to fedora. As recently my pip break because of some dependency issue in manjaro

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Loralighte

FerenOS is good, I know the developer and he is pretty chill

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Rexy Andriansyah

Agree

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3e2

Hello there, andrian! Welcome to the dev.to community!