Picking a starting distro is like playing a game, it does not take long for us to stay in our starting town. With various informative sites like DistroWatch, and even a testing site like distro test, our options are endless. Beginners should not get too hung up on deciding which game they want to play as there are tons available. Sooner or later in life, some even leave their starting towns, and even their countries.

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4 months ago

The common sense I advocate mainly revolves around DistroWatch. High ranking distributions (indicated by the hits per day chart) are generally more favorable for many reasons; stability, support, user-friendliness, friendliness of other users and so on. Over the past few years, I have usually recommended the three major M named distros; Mint, Manjaro, and MX. They have had high favorability over the past decade. A…

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4 months ago

The broken headline (should say Linux Gaming Distros) reminded me of DistroWatch’s value to the community, aside from its unusual ranking system: https://distrowatch.com/.

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7 months ago

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.

With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the image files to the USB drive and boot it
You can copy many image files at a time and ventoy will give you a boot menu to select them.

You can also browse ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files in local disk and boot them.

x86 Legacy BIOS,…

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9 months ago

Distrowatch.com is a great way to learn about each distro (or at least the big ones) and get all the details about what is in them.

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10 months ago

I wonder why do people keep mentioning about Kali Linux. And I hear almost nobody talk about PCLinuxOS (distrowatch.com top 21) or about OpenMandriva or about Mageia (distrowatch.com top 17).

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10 months ago

Go to https://distrowatch.com and learn how to use the site.

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10 months ago

I agree… So if you use the GUI, the window manager has a lot to do with it (hence the other posters comment about wayland). The author also notes the size of the download/distro, which is not equal to install size. If you wanted to go really crazy, perhaps install gentoo and only put in the packages you absolutely need? I still find this site terribly useful, and parse through distros probably once a month….

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11 months ago

For several days now I have been unable to access distrowatch.com using any Mullvad server (I haven’t tested all of them, but a lot of them).

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12 months ago

Distrowatch is a good place to get an overview of pretty well every Linux distribution ever made, with links and a bit of background info on each. https://distrowatch.com/.

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about 1 year ago

MX always seems to be Distrowatch’s most viewed Linux distro: https://distrowatch.com/?newsid=11903 The #1 ranking is mysterious, and doesn’t jibe with how MX gets almost no attention here at HN for various reasons, but it is a great distro anyways.

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about 1 year ago

Just pick one of the top 10 on https://distrowatch.com/.

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about 1 year ago

And while u’re at it, go to distrowatch.com search page to find more distros. Find distros with support for old computers. Remember, though, search results from here should be treated just as a starting point. Lots of times the results will not be entirely accurate. Well, u can read some infos about any distro u want there; including their websites and download pages; so it’s a good enough place to start your search.

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about 1 year ago

The entire Linux system here is a bespoke custom setup or ‘distribution’ as they’re referred to and yes there are a lot of them with the most well-known flavors probably being Ubuntu, Debian, Arch and Fedora.

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about 1 year ago

Like DEs, there are lots of WMs available for u to play with. For example, I3WM and Qtile. Go to distrowatch.com or google the shit out of them to find more, whichever u prefer. Enjoy. ;).

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over 1 year ago

Great site to checkout: https://distrowatch.com/.

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over 1 year ago

Starting point: distrowatch.com search page for a concised version of distro listing with any use case scenario u want. It is not a complete distro list by far, but u have google for the rest.

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over 1 year ago

> Glancing at the new Debian 12 screenshots, I realised that in the past years most major desktop OSes transitioned to a macOS-esque (middle-aligned, bottom) large icon taskbar. Why? That’s a misinformed take, Gnome is not the only desktop environment available on Debian, it just happen to be listed first in the installer, it’s a DE agnostic OS If you look at the most popular linux distro, the 3 most popular ones…

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over 1 year ago

It’s ranked #1 on https://distrowatch.com/ since forever.

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over 1 year ago

Probably can find a cracked version of XP on pirate bay.
But I would still run the cracked xp in a virtual sandbox on linux.
Its also quite possible a new Linux distribution already Knows how to handle those files.
There’s only 100’s for FREE to choose from on https://distrowatch.com/.

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over 1 year ago

Something that was my go-to for finding new distros is https://distrowatch.com/.

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over 1 year ago