I have been distro hopping for about 2 weeks now, there’s always something that doesn’t work. I thought I would stick with Debian and now I haven’t been able to make my printer work in it, I think I tried in another distro and it just worked out of the box, but there’s always something that’s broken in every distro.

I’m sorry I’m just venting, do you people think Ubuntu will work for me? I think I will try it next.

  • helpmyusernamewontfi@lemmy.today
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    10 months ago

    What do you want out of your system?

    There are two more I’d reccomend as its what my family and friends have been using and have ran into literally, zero issues.

    Linux mint (specifically cinnamon edition) is very stable, and customizable if you’re into that sorta thing, you can install custom kernels and get greatly improved performance out of gaming if thats your thing. It’s built off of Ubuntu (but just better) so there’s great support for it, especially with devices such as printers.

    Fedora Kinoite is a solid, also well supported, immutable distribution which will either make your life easier, or more difficult.

    Immutable means you can’t change anything in your root directory, so basically your “C: Drive”. You still have a regular file system and can install all your apps, but the operating system stays the same as everyone else’s and is something that by design, never breaks and “just works”, and is what I personally use.

    Pop_OS is definitely another option if you have “newer” hardware and Linux Mint doesn’t work for you and you don’t like the immutability of Fedora Kinoite (you can always try regular Fedora KDE). But I’d personally reccomend just the first two. But Pop is also built off of Ubuntu, so you still get that great hardware support.

    But please, avoid stock Ubuntu. Ubuntu has far gone away from being a beginner, “just works” distro.

    Hope this helped! Please reply or message me if you have any issues or are confused, or you can always ask for some more help within this community as well!