Which Linux flavour should I install in my newly ordered ssd ?
My usage will be
vscode, chrome, mongodb,
android studio

Please take consideration of ease in installing hardware drivers. Didn't want to waste so much time on it.

For a basic distribution that should work and almost everything, Debian is my go-to choice. It's not cutting edge, but should be enough to fill your needs.

@jespersh @Jilano @24th-Dragon Ubuntu is what I was thinking to install..

Debian. It's stable, maintainable and doesn't come with a tone of bloatware. The installation can be a bit of a pain if you're not booked up to Ethernet but apart from that it's great.

Debian or Elementary (elementary for the looks, Debian for the low power laptop/PC)

Manjaro works awesome on my machine

Buntu, mint,... Smth of this kind.

Go for ubuntu.

If you want or like lightweight distros my favorite is Linux Lite. Really good distribution. Has never let me down

@polaroidkidd what about Kali? It's based on Debian I think.

@shahidcodes Debian ftw!!

Mint > ubuntu

I'm confused now 🙄
Ubuntu, Mint, or Debian?

Ubuntu or Debian, flip a coin, you are probably not going to see a difference either way.

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS minimal! :-)

Going with Ubuntu 18.04

Ubuntu or mint. No reason to mess with arch and the rest, unless you don't value your time and want to spend it fixing the os on every update

Stick with the most popular so you can find guides and fixes easily, mint and Ubuntu are almost the same

Ubuntu, I think you should go with 16.04 for better "internet debugging"

Or just go with 18.04

If you are a newby Ubuntu is probably the way to go, however it's not really extensible which is why I personally don't use it.
But as long as you don't want something special of the distro (you will know) Ubuntu is probably the best bet.

Ubuntu is so far good. Will update you guys after few days of usage.

@rantOverflow why's that?

@shahidcodes it's perfectly fine if it's a development DB - not running 24/7 serving an application heavy on DB writes. Don't be too worried about SSD lifespan. In the end it'll probably last longer than your average HDD.

@rantOverflow actually I can only put either SSD or HDD. My laptop doesn't have a CD-ROM because of its slim structure. Also as @lucaspar said mostly I'd be using machine like 5-6 hours also it's development machine so there won't be a lot of read/write operations.

@shahidcodes I've only had Kali for pen testing purposes during my university years. If you want to use this tools go ahead, but for what your described Debian is more t than enough.

Just make sure you have the full non-free version on two usbs during install. For my Dell the WiFi was not recognized and needed drivers, which were in the non free stick but the installer somehow demanded I have them in ANOTHER stick. So there's that.

@polaroidkidd Ubuntu had no problem with WiFi drivers. Its working nicely now.

@shahidcodes I didn't say Ubuntu did. I said Debian did.

@polaroidkidd got it

Has anyone experience with RHEL 7 Desktop?
Let's pretend it would be free, I just want to know how qualitative it is